Fridge / Time Changer

• Fridge Logic:
  • Russell's friend tells him the Time Machine can't be used to bring objects back in time if those objects haven't been made yet. By that logic, how can Russell travel forward in time since he would be (and is even mentioned to be) long since dead in the present?
  • The film concludes with a character attempting to send a Bible into the future, reasoning that the date it fails will indicate The End of the World as We Know It. But according to The Bible itself, no one can know the day or the hour of the End of Days. Or as a Something Awful reviewer phrased it:
    Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come? (Ecclesiastes 8:7)
  So wait a minute. If the Bible is infallible, then Russell can't possibly be seeing the future, and the whole movie is a lie. But if Russell really is seeing the future, then the Bible is wrong and Christianity is a sham. Either way, this movie is full of shit, and I'm not watching another minute.
  • Russell is shocked by seeing the future that would result from publishing his book— a future that amounts to our present day. So, back in his time, he decides to rewrite the book. But given the Butterfly Effect, shouldn't the edits to the book alter the future? Or is Russell's theology book not as influential as he thinks?

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