LOST Tonight (4/6 - "Follow the Leader")

[manasecret]

I'll fancy word you!

Please elaborate. An intellectual battle by the writers you mean? So, can determinism (the plane crash and all events after are set in stone, I assume) and agent causation (Faraday/Jack etc. can change those events in the future by their actions in the past) ever actually mesh? How does it all work out then? Assuming they can't mesh, will one be a winner of the other in the end?