Is predestination possible?

There are ideologies in which absolute predestination is recognized, which means that everything that is to happen is already decided in advance. Suppose that is the case, and let us ask whether we can find the key that will allow us to uncover this secret and thus learn in detail about everything that our universe, and we await in it in the future. As for the information obtained from the Book of Revelation, it is clear that just as one will never know when and how one’s journey of life will end, similarly one will never know when and how the universe will end. It is written, “You do not know the day or the hour.”

And how is science doing? Based on what we have analyzed several times so far, we must also answer the possibility of knowing predestination in the negative. The development of systems, both inanimate and animate, is a unity of determinism and chance. The deterministic side of processes allows us to meditate (even in the future). However, the random factor (fluctuation), which plays a decisive role in creating a new quality in a critical situation, goes beyond deterministic processing and falls into the realm of probability. This, in principle, prevents us from knowing in detail all the processes that will take place in the future. In this sense, our universe is “open,” which we have repeatedly pointed out.

Also, there is another serious objection. Matter gradually gets into new and new states with development, for which new laws also apply. We will gradually discover them, and only after their discovery and knowledge will we predict further developments. This brings us to a difficult situation: for scientific forecasting, we would also need to know the laws that will only appear with the evolution of matter.

We see that when exploring the future, we encounter fundamentally greater problems than when exploring the past. Some serious Christian scientists’ reflections even go so far as to deny even God himself the ability to predict the future. They argue that by creating a world such as we are witnessing, God has voluntarily renounced this possibility, thereby actually limiting His omnipotence. This problem clearly arises when we assume that there are no “hidden parameters” that should determine what is happening in the microworld. We have already written about this and possible counter-arguments, so we will not deal with it anymore. We just wanted to document that wanting to know in detail the future is not to give the Earth, but it seems, maybe even heaven.