(February 14, 2013 at 2:32 am)Finn Wrote: If hard determinism is true, then Dawkins doesn't have a choice in the matter, either.
(February 14, 2013 at 2:52 am)Chuck Wrote: Dawkins is predetermined to act in a way that is predetermined to appear to contradict predetermination to you.
Whether your health is harmed or not is predetermined, nor do you have any choice in whether to wish it onto another. But you are predetermine to doubt to a precisely predetermined degree whether these things are predetermined.
I realise this, I'm just unsure of how or why someone that realises this acts in the way he does. It's intriguing to me, I am determined in working out what determined it.
He once admitted to a fellow atheist that, "I feel as if I have free will, even if I don't". It is interesting he does not entertain this approach when considering those who feel as if they have god.
