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If the definition of god is all-knowing/all-powerful, then he’d have to be the ultimate infinite god of all infinite universes… at least that’s what I’d think.

The main thing that still makes me question the existance of god now & then is Schroeder’s cat. If outcome of chance is only determined by observation, who is observing?

I started assuming existence of God because the question asked about divine preordination. But we might just as well talk about fate, or time-space continuum or whatnot.

But as you suggest, this might actually be a deeper question – is universe preordained or random? If it is, then theoretically we could time-travel into the future.

If it is random, then the future is a blank slate, and past is a jumble of ever expanding parallel dimensions.

But here is another question – what happens if we combine parallel dimension theory with God? Does each dimension have it’s own infinite God or do all of them share it?

Being an atheist, I like to start with god not being involved at all.

Suppose there is no god, do we have free will? If you consider time another dimension of space, it theoretically could be traveled just as we can go forward or backwards down a road. Every decision that is made is like a fork in the road. After so many decision points, there are many parallel roads; parallel universes. So if every possibility of every choice ever, exists in a parallel dimension somewhere, do we have free will? Did parallele universes exist before the occurrence of life that could make choices? (String theory might suggest so) Or are we mere chemical-computers that don’t truly make choices at all but obey our chemical programming?

Throw a god into the mix, a god that knows how it’s all going down in the past, the future, and every conceivable parallel universe, and from his point of view we have neither free-will nor is anything pre-ordained since all possibilities exist.

Ok, my head hurts.