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The omniscient being might look at a radioactive atom and know that in a given half-life it has a 50% probability of decaying... thus the universe is not mechanical. It also knows whether the atom is going to decay during this half-life or not, but that's because it is omniscient, not because the universe is mechanical.
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om·nis·cient (ŏm-nĭsh'ənt) pronunciation
adj.
Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator.
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To know everything would be to have an answer to every question. My interpretation of that definition would have an omniscient being know which atom was going to decay as well, creator or not.
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"Oh, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83 when I was the only practitioner of it, and I stopped because I was tired of being stared at."
Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
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