Tag Archives: Things Science Can’t Explain
Around the Web#4: Is Free-Will an Illusion?
What exactly is “free-will”? Richard Swinburne explains that usually our desires and beliefs determine what we will do. However, sometimes we need to choose a course of action from among conflicting desires and beliefs:
(Note that Swinburne’s view of free-will is consistent with the Christian doctrine of the Fall, which teaches that our desires and moral beliefs have fallen into disorder.)
However, Sam Harris and other materialists have argued that free will is an illusion.
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Has Science Disproved God? Q&A
Q: How can you believe in God when Science has disproved His existence?
A: This a very popular sound bite and really amounts to nothing more than a simple category mistake. This category mistake occurs when a person doesn’t realise that there are different types of explanation.
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