Once upon a time, when God was God, and God's ways were mysterious, I took God's omniscience and omnipresence on faith. I also used to take Newtonian physics by faith. Falling apples and gravity are pretty self-evident, even though the numbers and equations are as mysterious to me as the vocation of preaching may be to some physicists. And a cue striking a white ball hitting an 8 ball into a side pocket is a pretty straightforward chain of events, even though I seldom mannaged to achieve it. What might have been difficult, apart from the famous leap of faith, was reconciling God's omniprescence and omniscience with Newtonian physics and its one-directional, one-at-a-time phenomena. After all, how can God possibly listen to a billion people's prayers at nearly the same time? But when we discover quantum physics, and phenomena like entanglement, suddenly God's omnipresence and omniscience becomes, as Professor d'Espagnat has might put it, "one of the constitutive elements of Being."
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