Editing Omniscience (section)

==Omniscience and free will==
[[File:Orozco Mural Omniciencia 1925 Azulejos.jpg|thumb|right|''Omniciencia'', mural by [[José Clemente Orozco]]]]
{{see also|Determinism|Free will|Argument from free will}}
Whether omniscience, particularly regarding the choices that a human will make, is compatible with [[free will]] has been debated by [[Theology|theologians]] and [[Philosophy|philosophers]]. The argument that divine foreknowledge is not compatible with free will is known as [[theological fatalism]]. It is argued that if humans are free to choose between alternatives, God could not know what this choice will be.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.valdosta.edu/~rbarnett/phi/free.html |title=Ron Barnette, a Bright-OMNISCIENCE AND FREEDOM |publisher=Valdosta.edu |date=1999-09-16 |access-date=2013-04-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422202913/http://www.valdosta.edu/~rbarnett/phi/free.html |archive-date=2012-04-22 }}</ref>

A question arises: if an omniscient entity knows everything, even about its own decisions in the future, does it therefore forbid any free will to that entity? [[William Lane Craig]] states that the question subdivides into two:
# If God foreknows the occurrence of some event E, does E happen necessarily?<ref>{{cite journal|title=Purtill on Fatalism and Truth|journal=[[Faith and Philosophy]]|date=1990|pages=229–234}}</ref>
# If some event E is contingent, how can God foreknow E's occurrence?<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2771 |journal=Process Studies |pages=30–37 |volume=18 |issue=1 |date=Spring 1989 |title=Does Omniscience Imply Foreknowledge? Craig on Hartshorneby |first=Donald Wayne |last=Viney |access-date=5 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111102032031/http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2771 |archive-date=2 November 2011 |doi=10.5840/process198918130 |s2cid=170638788 }}</ref>

However, this kind of argument fails to recognize its use of the [[modal fallacy]]. It is possible to show that the first premise of arguments like these is fallacious.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.iep.utm.edu/foreknow/#SH6b |title=Foreknowledge and Free Will |encyclopedia=The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |date=12 June 2010 |access-date=3 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430091819/https://www.iep.utm.edu/foreknow/#SH6b |archive-date=30 April 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/modal_fallacy.htm#omniscience |last=Swartz|first=Norman |author-link= Norman Swartz|title='The' Modal Fallacy |publisher=[[Simon Fraser University]] |date=5 March 2011 |access-date=3 May 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809215754/https://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/modal_fallacy.htm |archive-date=9 August 2017 }}</ref>