You may be able to predict what your children will say and/or do, but you making a probabalistic prediction, based on your knowledge of them in similar situations. Sometimes children do unexpected (to you)things. If you were successful in predicting with perfect accuracy everything they did from the time they were born until the time they died, they could not possess free choice. If you created them and everything else in the universe, you must have created the elements that determine their behavior, therefore you, not they, have "free will" and you, not they, are the creator. The only resolution to this and other paradoxes is, in my not too humble opinion, Kirkegaard. However, for those like myself, who are unable to make the "leap of faith" the idea of an omniscient creator and free will are mutually exclusive. To be fair, even if one were to be able to demonstrate that free will did not exist, I would still not be able to accept the idea of an omniscient creator.
Harry Avis PhD Sierra College Rocklin, CA 95677 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so - Shakespeare _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
