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Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 2:09 pm
For religious folks, would you pack it in? If they, in the future, could map out 'decision making', and show it's got nothing to do with 'choosing', that pretty much is game over for the foundation of all major religions, right?
Would you consider this to be proof that your God doesn't exist?
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RE: Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 2:13 pm
Yes I would and that my religion is false.
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RE: Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 2:26 pm
Make sure to get light goalposts; don't want anyone injuring their back.
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RE: Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 2:49 pm
(July 3, 2016 at 2:26 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Make sure to get light goalposts; don't want anyone injuring their back.
Hehehe
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RE: Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2016 at 4:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Oh, cmon, allah's made of of stronger stuff than all that, surely? I'd be a little dissappointed, personally..if the faithful suddenly became less so because they realized that science said what it had been saying all along.
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RE: Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 4:12 pm
Something tells me it may not be a good idea to turn MysticKnight into an atheist. Surely nobody wants him going through a big existential crisis.
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RE: Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 4:14 pm
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Meh, he did fine without Ali a few years back. Wasn't out eating babies or raping people, so far as I could tell.
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RE: Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 7:47 pm
For the others in the thread, do you think finding out you aren't responsible for who you are would decrease the enjoyability of your circle jerks?
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RE: Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 8:12 pm
MK, no need to wait matey.
Since when do religious people rely on evidence to believe in god?
It's like the creature in Alien.
The more you fight them, the tighter they will strangle the logic.
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RE: Hypothetically, science proves free will isn't real
July 3, 2016 at 11:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2016 at 11:50 pm by robvalue.)
If there is nothing but pure determinism, and we somehow learn this, we will react and continue to act in precisely the one way that we are determined to act anyway.
We could speculate on what that is of course. But you can't "choose" to act in a reality where there is no choice.
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