(As an aside, something I’ve mentioned here in different places, is that I like the suggestion that QM might be hinting that the fundamental reality of the universe is information.)
But about QM and free will, we’re maybe getting down to the ‘interface’ between God and spacetime. A video that visualizes the concepts of past and future coexisting as spacetime ‘slices’:
ETA: I just discovered that the original link NOVA ‘Fabric of the Cosmos’ yielded a page with multiple episodes. This is the one that pertains – those outside the U.S. maybe cannot watch it, but there is a transcript viewable on the page:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/the-fabric-of-the-cosmos-the-illusion-of-time/
That fits the suggestion that God is omnitemporal (no, not really the B theory of time except maybe with respect to God ; - ) and he can ‘be’, omnipresent, in all spacetime slices instantaneously and simultaneously, since he is exempt from the constraints of time and space.
These support the idea, among other things elsewhere:
- From Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology:
God’s eternity may be defined as follows: God has no beginning, end, or succession of moments in his own being, and he sees all time equally vividly, yet God sees events in time, and he acts in time."
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And from here, (Why God Is Not In Time - #5 by Reggie_O_Donoghue)
I like the idea that all of God’s interactions with us are through a single act, which generates the cosmos, an idea which I term the Logos principle, based on Philo of Alexandria. In this way, God can still interact with us whilst not acting at a ‘particular’ point in time.
(Thanks, Reg, if you ever visit… and if you don’t. ; - )
So how does God interact in spacetime without violating anyone’s free will. I think it’s a wonderful (and terrible) mystery that we will not be able to wrap our heads around. But we know he does. No one’s free will was suspended in any of the myriad of precursor events required for any of these events to happen the way that they did.