On a very personal note, meaning it is completely my own experience:
I can see the conditions in the pre-Planck epoch, (... as we describe it today with our best quantum models,) as exactly what should be expected if the All Powerful, All Knowing, God poured His perfect intentions into our total reality. The complete flow of perfectly intentional open ended states getting ready to become us, as the first notes of the orchestra of life starts to play the full richness* of each experience that will ever be realised for an eternal future in God's presence...
*... "Full richness", includes reality exactly as it is experienced now... The song of love, pain, redemption, beauty, evil, progress and righteousness playing through time... It is called the Song of Christ.
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"The Song of Christ"... Well reading a book by William Dembski" "Being as Communion" I realised that the synthesis I experienced in that comment has now been synthesized with some thoughts from this book! It is an amazing experience, I just wanted to share with you! The footnote even reference Dr. Craig's defence of free will in the light of this! (This is the kind of learning through becoming part of the harmony of new knowledge and insight flowing from other minds...)
This was the comment followed by a quote from Dembski's book:
On a very personal note, meaning it is completely my own experience:
I can see the conditions in the pre-Plack epoch, as we describe it today with our best quantum models, as exactly what should be expected if the All Powerful, All Knowing, God poured His perfect intentions into our total reality. The complete flow of perfectly intentional open ended states getting ready to become us, as the first notes of the orchestra of life starts to play the full richness* of each experience that will ever be realised for an eternal future in God's presence...
*("Full richness", includes reality exactly as it is experienced now... The song of love, pain, redemption, beauty, evil, progress and righteousness playing through time... It is called the Song of Christ.)
From William Dembski's Being as Communion:
"Accordingly, even in a world that is causally closed and fully deterministic, God, by carefully arranging the world from the start, could achieve all intended effects, up to and including acts of particular providence that appear to require direct, real-time intervention (though, in fact, they have been “front-loaded”). Note that even a full-throated physical determinism need not obviate libertarian free will: God could have arranged the physical world to reflect the freely made choices of free agents that have physical bodies. 12
12 I’m assuming here a traditional theism that sees God as omniscient, where omniscience includes knowledge of future contingent events, and where such omniscience leaves a robust noncompatibilist human freedom intact. This view has been widely challenged but also ably defended. For such a defense, see William Lane Craig, “Divine Foreknowledge and Newcomb’s Paradox,” Philosophia 17 (1987): 331– 50, available online at http:// www.reasonablefaith.org/ divine-foreknowledge-and-newcombs-paradox (last accessed June 28, 2013)."
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