Determinism

[Purple Rabbit]

That's remarkably close to it considering you're just beginning the journey.

Some devils of the details:
- Determinism is not a scientific theory but a philosophical viewpoint. The difference is that determinism is not a body of scientifically coherent verifiable statements used to explain existing facts and predict new ones. Moreover determinism is a metaphysical statement about the nature of reality.
- Fortunately science gives us lots of verified theories with which we can predict quite a bit with good accuracy and understand historic facts.
- If determinism is true for the reality we live in it follows that contracausal freewill cannot exist. Since contracausal freewill is a concept that religious concepts as the soul depend on, it follows that determinism refutes religious concepts that are dependent on that.

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BTW, I think that the Reasonable Doubts podcasts are of excellent quality, especially these episodes:

rd64 - Determinator 4 - Rise of the machines
rd30 - FWvD2 - Judgement Day
rd29 - Free Willy vs The Determinator