Reading the two articles recommended by Wittybb and David... reminded me that I had actually written a couple of blog entries a while back which talked about similar issues.
An Equation...
I pondered the possibility of a single equation that would describe everything in this world and universe, including every physical thing and you and me and even our behavior. This is the deterministic view point held by Einstein. And as Christians, we believe that God has a plan for us... which in a certain sense, for He has laid out a plan, His plan is deterministic. Yet, we also speak of free will and that we are responsible for things that we do and say. It is contradictory. But I do not struggle with it. I'd like to believe that we do have free will and we should be held accountable for our actions. But who are we to say that our free will is not part of God's grand plan for us? Our free will could very well be just the random noise in the grander scale of things. Knowing this makes us humble and meek as how Jesus has taught us.
On God and Science
I struggled a great deal and I still do, to this day, on how to make compromises between faith and science. I believe science is a discovery tool... a tool that we should use to explore and understand God's creation. The more we know, we realize that there are still more things that we don't know. What remains mystery is in our faith to believe.
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My view is that 凡事都有因果報應. If you do bad things to anyone it will come back and bite you at a later date. I can't explain it but it does happen. Can anyone prove it scientifically? I doubt it. There are many things in nature and life where you just can't explain it. Have you ever dreamed of some "events" that they actually occured at a later date in your life? It's like a sixth sense but you actually dreamed of it before it happened. Can someone explain it using scientific facts?
Maybe causality is part of this grand equation of God. We just don't know. Maybe we will never know or never understand.
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