RE: The burden of proof relating to conciousness, free choice and rationality
February 24, 2012 at 10:26 pm
(February 24, 2012 at 9:02 pm)marx_2012 Wrote: If the universe has been predetermined by the laws of the universe since the big bang then human choices have been predetermined as well.
Even if everything else you wrote is valid and sound, this is the part where you fall down. Apart from being a huge non-sequitur, the only person claiming that the Universe has been predetermined is you. On what basis are you making such a claim? Big Bang Theory merely demonstrates how the laws of the Universe came to exist; everything else, including how those laws are applied, flows from that basic starting point. If I gave you a loaded gun and you then went out and held up a jewellery store, am I responsible for your actions?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
