(October 25, 2011 at 1:58 am)chatpilot Wrote:
)Causality is a different issue altogether.) It is the position of theists to ascertain that god is uncaused. Under this condition, free will is totally biochemical or not. For free will to work outside biochemical bounds, there must be an external awareness separate from the body. If free will now has no biochemical process to initiate thought and choice, what is the cause?
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy