Bill - Well, I think "he" is consciously and intimately aware of all...given that "she" is not separate from any of it, BUT that doesn't mean that "it" knows what's going to happen next, given the nature of all those individual free wills that are operating out there all the time.

If you get what I mean... :-)

After all, when someone, in a godlike manner, creates an entire fictional world (as in a good computer game, such as Age of Empires)...the whole thrill of the game is in not knowing what's going to happen next with the many mechanisms and variables contained in the game when you play it. There are probabilities, but you don't know for sure exactly what will happen. The game has certain rules and definite structures which don't change...just like our Universe, BUT the behaviour of the many little artificially created beings in the game can be infinitely variable...and that makes the game exciting, creative, and worthwhile to play.

I believe that's a pretty good description of not only a computer game, but our own Creation as we know it.

- LH