Post by general313 on Mar 12, 2017 0:59:32 GMT
Mar 11, 2017 16:25:40 GMT @miccee said:
... But it would be impossible for free will to exist or be exercised in the way that would be required, because we do not choose our characteristics, our parents, our genes, our biases and proclivities, and we cannot choose which thoughts to think before we think them. This is why I would say that I know for a fact that the Christian conception of God does not exist.
In your view, can we choose anything at all then, or is that an illusion? Is our fate predetermined (or at least at the whim of random indeterminacy in a quantum universe)?