Albatrossity2
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| Quote (dheddle @ Feb. 18 2010,14:17) | | Exactly how does "not predetermined" or "not coerced" smuggle in a deity? |
If you don't see how it smuggles in a supernatural explanation, please tell me how moving a highlighter across a desk, or taking a sip of coffee (like I did just now) can be accomplished by predetermination or coercion that does not involve a supernatural explanation.
I'll be waiting.
| Quote | | And why do you need the snarky "false dichotomy, per usual?" |
Because I was hopeful that this discussion would not require the invocation of a deity, and I was disappointed. So I snarked. Mea culpa.
| Quote | | To me, "not predetermined" and "not coerced" are generic features of free-will. I'm assuming instead of just charging "false dichotomy!" you'll provide an alternative definition free will and its mechanism? I'm willing to listen. Or did I miss it? |
Free will is a theological construction invoked to explain behaviors which have a perfectly acceptable natural explanation.
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Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind
Has been obligated from the beginning
To create an ordered universe
As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.
- Pattiann Rogers
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