My dumbass parents doubt evolution

[Aractus]

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Physics. Forces. Strong nuclear. Weak nuclear. Gravity. Magnetic.

There is force which I call “soul” that can be proven to exist by scientific method. Take a rock and drop it. Physics can predict quite accurately exactly what will happen to the rock.

The rock will obey gravity, land on the floor and remain there until……………

Until what?

Until I walk over and pick it up. I can lift the rock using my own free will/volition.

Physics cannot predict when or EVEN IF I will pick up the rock.

Physics has no name for the unpredictable and VERY REAL force acting upon the matter of my shoulder, my arm, my hand, the rock in the EXACT OPPOSITE DIRECTION of gravity.

It is not hormones – hormones are matter.
It is not brain – brain cells are matter. Matter has no free will.

So what exactly is the name of the force (which acts in a way science cannot predict) that lifts the rock doing the opposite of what gravity intended?

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OK, let's pick apart your argument for a moment. If you drop the rock, and a monkey walks over and picks it up is it because the monkey has a "soul" too? Of course not, they only have "free will". But free will is not a requirement for life. Plants, fungi and bacteria live a happy productive existence devoid of having any free will. So does physics also fail to predict how they behave?

No, not really. You can't use Newton's Laws of Motion, or Quantum Mechanics, or Crystallography or General Relativity or the three laws of Thermodynamics or the laws of Chemistry or Geophysical laws... but guess what you can use? Mathematics and Biological laws!

No one knows exactly what DNA is, by the way, but that doesn't mean we can't derive a lot of information from it. No one knows exactly how free will arises from a complex neural network, but again it doesn't mean we can't derive a lot of information from brain cells. Like DNA, we have categorized the different sections in the Brain and can appreciate where certain functions are from.

So I disagree, physics can and does predict group behaviours. Life is just a highly complicated system, but that itself doesn't mean the system can't be studied scientifically and "laws" (or as I often prefer to say "rules") theorized.