[DanielBMarkham]

What a cute story. A logical Chinese finger puzzle.

Seems like this argument isn't new, is it? Those folks who both believe in a watchmaker's universe and freewill at the same time are also always going on about how critical it is to only make the "correct" choices.

It's circular reasoning. If a being exists that can tell which choices you are going to make, and it is able to kill you or prevent you from making those choices ahead of time, and some of those choices involve its existence? Then you'll ever be able to make choices that cause it not to exist. Or, with a bit of finer detail, the aggregate of all the choices made will never be such that it does not exist. Since the predicate was that such a being exists, we have returned to our starting point. Yadda yadda. In short, "How can something not exist that must exist?"