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Sahid
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Posted 7/24/2005 5:21 AM (GMT -6)

Let's say I'm getting ready to play my favorite CD. Getting rid of those inconvenient real world issues (like the possibility of the player breaking or someone with free will breaking it for me), I can know with "certainty" at least the future sounds that will come from my speakers. I don't see how this means that part of the future already exists.

By extension, isn't it possible for God to wind up a universe like a clock and know what will happen without that future actually existing?

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

Tom
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Posted 7/24/2005 11:13 PM (GMT -6)

If he first burns (= determines) it all first, yes. But let's say you're improvising with a group of jazz musicians. You know the key, the bridge, and the fundamental melody. But jazz permits improvisation. Nobody plays the same tune twice exactly the same way. There is no CD of it. You haven't ever played it the way you're going to play it.

God's a jazz musician. So are we.

Tom

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