Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: the Time dimension Message-ID: <1148@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 15:08:31 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1148 Posted: Tue Mar 6 15:08:31 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 07:28:59 EST References: <483@pyuxn.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 10 I don't know about God, but Vonnegut created some beings in _Slaughterhouse- Five_ that could see the whole space-time continuum. It didn't make them either omnipotent or fatalistic. I think the practical issue is whether omniscience is compatible with prayer. The "free will" problem seems to appeal mostly to people who don't use theirs much. Col. George Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel