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God disproved: 1) Something all-knowing always knows it's going to create the murderer. 2) It would be unable to not create the murderer as it always knows it's going to create it. 3) It would not be able to stop the murder as it always knows it will create the murderer.
Alternative way of putting it:
Okay, so it's sort of the freewill paradox mixed with the omnipotent and omniscient paradox I think. I doubt no one has come up with it before, but I can't find it via a search and I'm not sure what you call it. I believe there's something wrong with it, but I can't tell why it isn't a disproof of a theist God and deist God. Here's my argument:
Something which is all-knowing/omniscient always knew it would create, say, a unique human called "Adam A" because it can tell the future for all eternity.
However, that all-knowing something is unable to not create Adam A, it can't stop the creation of Adam A, because it always knew for certain it would create Adam A. It can't have freewill or be all-powerful.
Therefore something which is omniscient, omnipotent and has freewill at the same time is contradictory and impossible.
So some counters I've tried to come up with are as follows:
For 1 above: "The all knowing thing can't tell the future".
But if it can't tell the future it isn't all-knowing. If it can't tell the future there are loads of thing it can't do or know like tell what I'm about to think next before I think it myself.
For 2 above: "It is able to not create Adam A/to stop the creation of Adam A after all".
But then what it always knew, that it would create Adam A, is wrong. It knew for certain it would create Adam A then changed its mind and didn't create Adam A. This means what it originally knew for certain, that it would create Adam A, was wrong. Its knowledge of the future was wrong so it wouldn't be all-knowing.
Any responses to the argument would be appreciated.
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