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→Quantum mechanics and God: God is unfathomable to us, indeed, but why assume he wants to know everything? Again, there are very clear passages in the Old Testament where God inquired to find ...
:::Your statement includes several assumptions that are worth considering first. Does God want to know everything? There are several instances in the Old Testament where God did not seem to automatically know the answer, but had to inquire to find out. Also, even if God knows everything, that would still not rule out a possible role for chance. Humans know everything about the physics of a simple coin, but still don't know the outcome of a coin toss until they look.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:05, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
:::Your statement includes several assumptions that are worth considering first. Does God want to know everything? There are several instances in the Old Testament where God did not seem to automatically know the answer, but had to inquire to find out. Also, even if God knows everything, that would still not rule out a possible role for chance. Humans know everything about the physics of a simple coin, but still don't know the outcome of a coin toss until they look.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:05, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
::::But what is chance for us is not necessarily chance for God. God is larger than humans, isn't he? Unfathomably large, too large for us to understand. --[[User:FrederickT|FrederickT]] 13:30, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
::::But what is chance for us is not necessarily chance for God. God is larger than humans, isn't he? Unfathomably large, too large for us to understand. --[[User:FrederickT|FrederickT]] 13:30, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
:::::God is unfathomable to us, indeed, but why assume he wants to know everything? Again, there are very clear passages in the Old Testament where God inquired to find something out.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:21, 14 May 2011 (EDT)