Re: [asa] Random and design

Oops. Meant this for the whole group.

On Nov 22, 2006, at 2:34 AM, Don Winterstein wrote:

>
> I don't see it that way. I understand that you are contending
> that, in order for God to foreknow his people, he must foreknow in
> full detail all events that lead to his people, including the QM
> choices that every particle in the sequence makes, all the way from
> the big bang. That gives me a headache just thinking about it. I
> would hope that God would have better things to do with his
> cognitive apparatus--whatever it is--than store all this info.
>

I'm always amazed in these discussions with lines like the last two
sentences in the paragraph above. First, it should give you a
headache if you try to think like God. Of course, you can't do it--or
else you would be God. Your last sentence suggests that you think
that God is something like you and that he thinks and acts like you.
At best, your God is too small. At worst, you are making God after
your own image or at least after the image of very smart people that
you know.

God "effortlessly" is omniscience, omnipotent, omnipresent, infinite,
eternal, all-wise, all-good, etc. Only mild apologies to those who
object to the "Greek" thinking here. I'm convinced that the Hebrew
scriptures teach each of these concepts without necessarily using the
theological words.

If God is omniscient, etc., then ideas like "cognitive apparatus" and
"better things to do" just don't make sense.

TG

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Received on Thu Nov 23 12:32:58 2006