RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
October 30, 2015 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2015 at 4:19 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
I don't see why it requires the omniscient being to be a creator of the universe, or of anything, to preclude free will.
(I mean contra-causal free will is already an incoherent concept but that's beside my point).
I mean if Professor Xavier from the X-men had his powers boosted so he could hear all my future thoughts and decisions too, and he could know everything I was going to do before I did it... that would mean I wasn't free to do otherwise if he was truly correct in what I would do next on every occasion.
Any 100% reliable and infallible prediction of a future action precludes contra-causal free will.
There have been neurological scientific experiments that show every action we make is already decided by us unconsciously before we are aware of it... sometimes as much as 7 seconds beforehand. That totally precludes contra-causal free will.
Not that it needs to be precluded.... even without evidence against it contra-causal free will is completely impossible and logically incoherent and nonsensical anyhow.
(I mean contra-causal free will is already an incoherent concept but that's beside my point).
I mean if Professor Xavier from the X-men had his powers boosted so he could hear all my future thoughts and decisions too, and he could know everything I was going to do before I did it... that would mean I wasn't free to do otherwise if he was truly correct in what I would do next on every occasion.
Any 100% reliable and infallible prediction of a future action precludes contra-causal free will.
There have been neurological scientific experiments that show every action we make is already decided by us unconsciously before we are aware of it... sometimes as much as 7 seconds beforehand. That totally precludes contra-causal free will.
Not that it needs to be precluded.... even without evidence against it contra-causal free will is completely impossible and logically incoherent and nonsensical anyhow.
