Dan Barker Quote

Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists (ed. Ulysses Press, 2009) - ISBN: 9781569751480