RE: The free will argument demonstrates that christians don't understand free will.
May 1, 2014 at 7:22 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2014 at 7:25 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(May 1, 2014 at 6:53 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Are you equating human behavior with chance outcomes? Seems like apples and oranges to me.
I'm talking about frequency, which is related to chance. If an event takes a long time to occur, you might be justified in assuming that the event occurs at a low frequency, in which case you shouldn't expect it to occur any time soon.
For example, if an abuser was a short-term abuser who quickly stopped out of guilt, that person probably experiences guilt frequently. If they're a long-term abuser who still feels no guilt, that person probably feels guilt rarely, so we shouldn't expect their guilt to kick in any time soon.
Many people assume the opposite is the case when they make the gambler's fallacy, but that's a fallacy.
Wikipedia - Gambler's Fallacy
"The gambler's fallacy [...] is the mistaken belief that if something happens more frequently than normal during some period, then it will happen less frequently in the future; likewise, if something happens less frequently than normal during some period, then it will happen more frequently in the future (presumably as a means of balancing nature)."[/quote]
