Yeah, I'm sure we've all seen enough free will vs determinism threads for one lifetime, maybe two. But the purpose of this thread is not to debate free will vs determinism. You likely already belong to one of these schools of thought and have no intention of shifting your belief regardless of...
Think about it. God exists "in the beginning" all by Itself. What does God do to relieve the boredom, create a universe? It's pretty and all but it isn't engaging and God has no one to share it with. So (and all that follows happens in the blink of an eye) God considers creating angels, but...
I mean there is no free will or consciousness in Atheism (the absence of belief in the existence of supernatural) since according to them everything is material/physical. So how can they claim that their view is true if it was predetermined?
Calvanism interests me in that it states in TULIP (an ackronym) under Total depravity that my man is free to not sin, but due to self interest and neccesity will sin more times then not and that he is basically destined to do so. This and the concept of predestination interests me.
Also I...
I’ve often heard it said, particularly in the context of debates about free will, consciousness, etc., that because the world we experience is governed by classical physics (i.e., the “weirdness” of quantum mechanics isn’t relevant to e.g., neural activity and can be ignored), somehow the...