> I think the best to explain free will would be to assume that god _isn't_ totally omniscient - maybe he can predict anything that happens as a result of physical laws, maybe even quantum mechanics, but he _can't_ predict what a "free agent" will choose to do. Additionally, free agents are able to make decisions by the same basic mechanism as god himself (whatever that is), although to an infinitely small extent (assuming that god is infinite).

My point is that there is no possible mechanism that would allow for "free agents" to exist. You suggest that God can somehow make decisions independent of the universe, but you just sort of expand that ability to humans living in the universe. How can that be? Describing this mechanism (I suggest doing so is impossible) is what I'm interested in.

Stephen