Free Will: Fact or Fiction

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I consider that to be an extraordinary claim and it needs extraordinary evidence

As a theist I hear this line all the time, David Hume right?

I don't think that's a good way to live life.

Consider this:

A man living in the tropics would never believe travelers eyewitness accounts that water can exist in a solid state. That would go against all the laws of nature that this man would know.

On Humes view, even though there are reliable accounts of water existing as a solid, we should not believe it.

They could bring him ice (though it would melt). But the thing is that this man would not have any way to know what ice is. As humans, it is entirely possible (in fact very likely) that there are major discoveries waiting to happen outside of what we can observe. However, why is it that all of god's theatrics died down before there was a reliable way to record them? The accuracy of the bible is dubious, not even counting the supernatural parts. The fact that it is said to be infalliable and has many contradictions is a considerable strike against it. An eyewitness could be wrong, but with ice experiments could be done to find proof. Likewise, if they didn't have an understanding of the phases (plasma, gas, liquid, solid), then how would they know the ice was water? Are we to take at face value claims from a 2000+ year old book written largely on hearsay claiming extraordinary things that, from all of the scientific knowledge we have, is deemed to be impossible?

Well, since extraordinary eyewitness claims don't require extraordinary evidence, we should believe the many eyewitnesses that have seen Elvis in recent years. Maybe we should get his autograph to sell on e-bay... Oh, and we'll make a killing when we finally catch bigfoot.

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If there really is a God, he can do whatever He wants.

Abandon all hope!

Sorry, false alarm. We're going to be fine!