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Free will?
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RE: Free will?
(February 11, 2014 at 9:47 am)Esquilax Wrote:
(February 10, 2014 at 10:05 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: You can't get scientifically get any freewill from deterministic physical natural processes as you would be everything your brain is and does and we can explain it all. Though the idea is that science can't account for everything therefore you can have freewill just fine. Therefore atheism must be mistaken, or you must at any rate believe to be mistaken in order to believe that you have freewill and a rational mind.

Hey Sword, could you do me a solid and actually research what you're talking about sufficient to understand it before you comment, rather than just deciding you know more about it than the people who have studied it? Dodgy

That's a great example of not having free will. If Sword does as commanded then he doesn't have free will because he isn't able to resist doing what you commanded him to do. So he won't have any free will as far as him being able to resist your orders.
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Free will? - by BrokenQuill92 - February 10, 2014 at 12:06 am
RE: Free will? - by JuliaL - February 10, 2014 at 12:43 am
RE: Free will? - by Tonus - February 10, 2014 at 9:36 am
RE: Free will? - by Sword of Christ - February 10, 2014 at 10:05 am
RE: Free will? - by MindForgedManacle - February 10, 2014 at 10:15 am
RE: Free will? - by Tonus - February 10, 2014 at 11:44 am
RE: Free will? - by Whateverist - February 10, 2014 at 6:42 pm
RE: Free will? - by Esquilax - February 11, 2014 at 9:47 am
RE: Free will? - by Wyrd of Gawd - March 11, 2014 at 2:44 am
RE: Free will? - by Jovanian Teapot - March 11, 2014 at 3:20 pm
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - March 11, 2014 at 6:40 pm
RE: Free will? - by Jovanian Teapot - March 11, 2014 at 2:27 am
RE: Free will? - by Tonus - March 11, 2014 at 9:40 am
RE: Free will? - by Chad32 - February 10, 2014 at 1:01 am
RE: Free will? - by SteelCurtain - February 10, 2014 at 1:27 am
RE: Free will? - by BrokenQuill92 - February 10, 2014 at 1:33 am
RE: Free will? - by Whateverist - February 10, 2014 at 2:06 am
RE: Free will? - by Chad32 - February 10, 2014 at 9:18 am
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 10, 2014 at 5:03 am
RE: Free will? - by Jacob(smooth) - February 10, 2014 at 5:21 am
RE: Free will? - by Sword of Christ - February 10, 2014 at 9:22 am
RE: Free will? - by shep - February 19, 2014 at 10:44 pm
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 10, 2014 at 7:38 pm
RE: Free will? - by JuliaL - February 10, 2014 at 9:11 pm
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 11, 2014 at 8:05 am
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2014 at 8:42 am
RE: Free will? - by MindForgedManacle - February 11, 2014 at 9:39 am
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 11, 2014 at 10:20 am
RE: Free will? - by JuliaL - February 11, 2014 at 11:47 am
RE: Free will? - by ThePinsir - February 11, 2014 at 11:34 am
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 11, 2014 at 1:21 pm
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2014 at 8:46 pm
RE: Free will? - by Whateverist - February 11, 2014 at 8:56 pm
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 12, 2014 at 7:42 am
RE: Free will? - by Whateverist - February 12, 2014 at 8:19 am
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 12, 2014 at 7:35 pm
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 12, 2014 at 9:47 am
RE: Free will? - by MJ the Skeptical - February 20, 2014 at 12:56 pm
RE: Free will? - by heathendegenerate - March 11, 2014 at 2:40 pm
RE: Free will? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 7:35 am



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