[chezlaw]

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If God is omnipotent chance doesn't exist. If chance exists, God doesn't.


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I beg to differ on this one. Chance can exist without being ultimate. What if it's defined as something beyond current human understanding, without any speculation as to what lies beyond that, or what is ultimate? Surely you can say something is beyond our understanding, yet make models about what kinds of patterns we can recognize, without implying anything about what is primal or ultimate, can you not? I'd say the field of probability and statistics does just that.

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I struggle with this. If god is omnipotent then he can create a world in which things happen at random if he wants to (real random not just unknown). If he wants to decree that some particles will decay randomly with probability p in such a way that there is no way of knowing when it will decay then he can, cant he?

Of course he may not want to but thats a different matter.

chez