The paradox of omniscience and free will

[_EAllusion]

Divine foreknowledge also is in tension with the idea that petitionary prayer is effective. Lots of Mormons believe that too.

[_brade]

The omniscience of someone else doesn't conflict with one's free will in any way.

I've posted about this a lot at MAD in the past. This sort of response comes up a lot and I think it reveals misunderstanding. There's a real subtly going on here and people unfamiliar with the philosophy behind all this often get hung up on the idea that someone (God) knows something and respond as if it's that a being knows something that's the problem. That's not right. It's what any such knowing implies that's the problem - i.e. that there are facts to be known. In short, even if God didn't exists, or if he did but was struck with a bad case of incurable divine amnesia, the problem for libertarian free will would still persist if it were still the case that there were facts about what people will do floating about, even if nobody stands in the knows-them relation to those facts.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]