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In reply to the discussion: Creationists Try to Outsmart Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Great Flood and Climate Change [View all]Bickle
(109 posts)Free will is impossible, biologically and theologically
We have proven countless times that the brain reacts to chemical and physical things that are beyond conscious control. That you can make people do things with things as simple as an electromagnetic field. That damage can create whole new people.
A being who know and sees all has known from the beginning of time what will happen, and in the extraordinarily unlikely event the Christian god exists, it is a sadistic monster (outside of the plethora of OT examples, where in the story it is merely one of many) do you give birth to a child just to spank it? Your god does.
So n, free will in the Christian concept does not exist. We are products of our biology and our environment, and while that may lead to the need to be kept away from more stable and productive organisms for the good of the whole, the idea that everyone just decides to do things is erroneous and dangerous.
Did you decide to be Christian? I bet not. Your parents programmed you to believe a fairy tale as true. Your choice to believe in god was not conscious for 90% plus of people. If we had free will, religion would be banned before adulthood, as they strike when you're most vulnerable, and programmed by nature to assimilate survival information, including keeping the profit and power centers of religion going. "Give me a child before seven, and I'll give you the man"