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Time-Telescope Analogy
- Law uses a 'time-telescope' analogy: God peers into the future like one peers at Jupiter with a telescope.
- God's belief a thousand years ago reflects what God saw in the future, which in turn depends on our later choices.
Downstream Dependence Restores Choice
- The downstream dependence principle says if Y depends on X and you choose X, you have some choice over Y.
- Combined with dependence, it denies we lack choice about God's past beliefs and so blocks the incompatibility argument's first premise.
Why The Past Feels Fixed
- The past is usually fixed because it typically doesn't depend on our choices; dependency makes certain past facts non-fixed.
- If some past facts depend on our choices, then we plausibly have some control over those past facts.