Here’s an article about free will from an atheist perspective.
It’s a fascinating proclamation of faith from a person who has no faith.
Here you go:
The Physics of Choices
Christian Comedy for Hire
If you like my blog even a little bit, then you should know I do Christian Comedy live shows! It’s all the faith and fun you read here, but on stage, it’s even more hilarious. Hire me for your next corporate bash, church event, or school function, and let’s make it a night of laughs with my unique brand of Christian Comedy!
Three Little Pigs
Three Little Pigs in Shakespeare is available as a children’s book. Get the illustrated story based on my viral comedy routine from Amazon. Makes a great gift for the word-lovers in your life.
You gonna keep lurking forever or are you gonna join this exclusive clique?
Stop procrastinating. Click This.
10 Responses
Dah, I skip out on the blog for a weekend and freewill comes up again! It’s as if I’m not meant to discuss this topic on the blog in any relevant way ^_-.
But srsly, I don’t understand why Infidel and the peanut gallery on his post so desperately want to hang on to an ill-defined concept. It seems likely that none of them have actually looked at even an introductory article on what free will even is. By definition freewill cannot be scientific, because it cannot be predictable. Because if it’s predictable then it is… wait for it… waaaaaaiiiiit……. Determined. Then you’re left with compatiblism, which is just determinism for wimps. That is all. ^_^
Apparently, it is determined that we discuss free will in your absence.
You really need to stop taking blog breaks, Dylan.
This comment is great!
Read this article a few times and I’m really really confused about how this atheistic analogy relates to free will in any way. If someone could explain how on earth is this relevant to free will whatsoever that would be really nice 😛
I believe the reasoning is that mankind didn’t understand thermonuclear energy 1000 years ago. But now we do. Likewise, mankind doesn’t understand how the brain manifests free will but eventually science will reveal that to be true.
Hope that clears up the confusion so you can appreciate the analogy in it’s full stupidity.
Ah, thanks. Yes, that’s a really stupid analogy, especially since even if science could explain why we have free will, it couldn’t explain why genetics “randomly chose” to manifest themselves in that way.
Yes… and if our genetics is truly random and arbitrary (not based on organized intrlligence) then there is no way we can determine that what we are thinking is really TRUE or not.
Right, and if our thoughts are randomly determined by genetics, then why are they screaming at us for being Christians?! It’s not our fault, it’s all in our genes!
Great post! Never thought of atheists as source material for comedy, but I think you are on to something. I sometimes get a good laugh out debating them.
It was popular atheist poster boys Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss during their recent and widely ignored atheism revival tour who declared that- in accordance with their faith in atheism/evolution/materialism- free will is an illusion. So this author has to declare consistent atheists as idiots who hate science. But of course, as you and many of your readers know, this author is trying to sneak in something unscientific. If the human brain is nothing but meat, then it obeys the laws of physics and chemistry just as much as the sun or a handful of driveway gravel must. This author’s desperation to avoid the obvious conclusions that Dawkins embraces tells me that he is rejecting atheism. As I’ve told many of my atheist friends- very few people are actually stupid enough to be atheists. Our hope is that they can see, among other things, that they are smarter than atheism demands so that they can eventually come to know that Jesus loves them and paid for this sins.
Also “atheists discussing free will is like Amish people discussing utility rates,” Hilarious!!! That should be on an official John Branyan coffee mug.