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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (7834)	9/4/2001 7:12:17 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I do believe in randomness and therefore free will. I realize that it is a belief and cannot be proven exactly (I could have been fated to write this). Fate places a large constraint upon the universe, not only is the uncertain future fated, but so is the past which means that the conditions for something as profound as the Roman Empire or as mundane as my choice of breakfast cereals was all programmed into the universe at the time of the big bang. (There is another set of problems if the universe is manipulated from time to time by a supernatural force). The path of least constraint and therefore the choice of Occam's razor is that the future is not fixed. TP