Saturday, December 11, 2004

Great book



I'm currently reading this book called "God's Debris" by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert. It's available in E-Book format as well as a physical copy so you probably should not have too much trouble finding a copy to read it. And it's really thought provoking read. It is probably worth a read. An excerpt from one chapter is below:

God's Free Will

"Does God have free will?" he asked.

"Obviously he does," I said. It was the most confidence I had felt so far in this conversation. "I'll admit there's some ambiguity about whether human beings have free will, but God is omnipotent. Being omnipotent means you can do anything you want. If God didn't have free will, he wouldn't be very omnipotent."

"Indeed. And being omnipotent, God must be able to peer into his own future, to view it in all it's perfect detail."

"Yeah, I know. You're going to say that if he sees his own future, then his choices are predetermined. Or, if he can't see the future, then he's not omnipotent."

"Omnipotence is tricker then it seems," he said.




It's actually a ficitional story about his thought experiment and proposes some very interesting theories. While I don't exactly agree with everything he says, it's a very interesting read none the less.

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