RE: If free will was not real
August 18, 2016 at 1:52 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2016 at 1:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Can't really add anything to Hams comments about your "argument". I can, however, remind you that claiming that free will doesn't exist, being skeptical of free will, or commenting on the validity or soundness of the arguments for free will... has nothing to do with atheists or atheism....and that people make choices regardless of whether or not free will exists.
Lets say you and I saw an airplane, neither of us had any prior knowledge as to how they flew...and I came up with an argument for what I believed to be the "how" - concluding that if my "how" didn't exist..then airplanes couldn't fly. If my how was pixie dust...would all of the planes fall out of the sky as soon as we both realized that there was no such thing? I doubt it. Just as I doubt that our ability to make choices depends upon your being right about the existence of free will.
Lets say you and I saw an airplane, neither of us had any prior knowledge as to how they flew...and I came up with an argument for what I believed to be the "how" - concluding that if my "how" didn't exist..then airplanes couldn't fly. If my how was pixie dust...would all of the planes fall out of the sky as soon as we both realized that there was no such thing? I doubt it. Just as I doubt that our ability to make choices depends upon your being right about the existence of free will.
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