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Originally Posted by rlbond86
2. God did not intervene for some reason: One reason or another, God decided not to intervene. However, it seems odd that a good God would be apathetic to such a situation. Thus the only likely solution for this possibility is the "clockmaker" God, who created the universe but now does not intervene in events, or only works "small" miracles. Yet then, God would have restricted His powers and thus would no longer be all-powerful. But if God does not intervene at all, why pray at all? Unless he still works small miracles. Just don't ask for world peace
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This is flawed logic. Why would a good god nessecarily be more proactive. Remember first that the concept of good and evil are creation of mankind. We cannot reasonably place expectations on divine beings. If you mean "by our definition of good", it's still flawed. Good people are often put into situations where they do NOT do the right thing, and not out of inability or lacking of goodness. Also, you come full circle in the partial debate of, if an omnipotent being put forth a limitation on his own powers, would he be able, in his omnipotence to restore those powers unto himself? Hmmm...
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Originally Posted by rlbond86
If there is destiny, we'll never have time travel, or someone would have shown up by now
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This logic is also flawed. What you posit here has nothing to do directly with destiny. If time travel were to exist, then theoretically, someone would have shown up by now destiny or not. How do you know they haven't? How do you know where we are on the line of forward moving time? Or is time cyclic? If it is both linear and infinite, there is a front to it as it moves along. Suppose we are AT that front. It's no more or less likely than us being in the front car of a train, the 6th car or the 9th. Who's to say?