RE: Richard Dawkins' Faith In Free Will Is As Blind As A Christians To God
July 4, 2010 at 6:10 am
Oh and please give a referenced quote in which Richard Dawkins is endorsing acausal free will.
Anyway, determinism is not as you say it "everything is as it is because that is how it was always going to be since the big bang started it all, religious belief included". That would imply that religious belief or indeed any observable phenomenon of society, is inevitable and unchanging. No mortal can decide on inevitability because this would require absolute knowledge. Unchangebility is dafter still since determinism does not mean that the world is in a fixed state. How you arrive at these conclusions is beyond me.
Anyway, determinism is not as you say it "everything is as it is because that is how it was always going to be since the big bang started it all, religious belief included". That would imply that religious belief or indeed any observable phenomenon of society, is inevitable and unchanging. No mortal can decide on inevitability because this would require absolute knowledge. Unchangebility is dafter still since determinism does not mean that the world is in a fixed state. How you arrive at these conclusions is beyond me.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
