If you apply string theory and the concept of a multiverse to this discussion (and then warp it to suit your needs like I will), it makes things easier. God(s) can be omniscient because they know what will happen, and you also have free will, because you can make a different choice in each of an infinite number of parallel universes.
I wrote the paragraph below before reading your post. It refers to free will versus determinism in the vein of societal and genetic behavioural control factors.
Yes. No one will ever discover conclusively that there is or is not free will. One of the major scientific paradigms is that "yes, we have free will but with limits." I believe this partially true, in that most of the time is is correct, though we have the potential to exercise complete free will; it is merely an extremely difficult, nigh impossible to do.
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