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Old 11-13-2007, 06:41 PM
pokervintage pokervintage is offline
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Default Re: Crazy Question about Omnipotence

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Why doesnt omniscience extend to knowing the outcome of random events?

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The very definition of a random event (with more than 1 possible outcomes) does not allow knowing before hand the result of any independent trial. Time is not a factor. If there is such a thing as an unbiased coin and it is tossed and the results are truly random one cannot, not even one that is omniscient, predict the outcome with any more than %50 accuracy. Omniscient does not meant having power to do anything just to know things.

For example Steven Hawkings may be the most knowledgeable scientist in the world when it come to Black Holes but he cannot lift his own spoon to feed himself (unfortunate and sad). Knowledge alone is not power just a good portion of it. Omnipotence and omnicience are not synonyms.

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