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I'm having a crisis r9k. I've been a staunch atheist my entire life, believing wholly in evolution and rejecting what I considered to be the naive idea of a God...
Now I don't know what to think, I was posed this argument;
'Genes and environment can be used to predict the success and behaviour of an individual, so where does free will come from? If you're not a determinist, God must exist.'
What the fuck do I do r9k
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Easy, accept determinism.
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This argument is unfalsifiable and therefore horseshit.
Scientists actually don't have the faintest idea on how and why the brain works the way it does
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OP is either 13, retarded, or a theist throwing bait.
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You can predict with genes, but its all statistics and probability. just because you have a gene, doesnt mean it is activated, and a lot of genes we dont know how theyre activated, and the ones we do only activate at an X chance under X conditions. Variation is everywhere. Not very much of it is absolute.
I'm a STEMfag and I still believe in God. All the stuff I see just further proves it; why would God make anything but this incredibly complex, but ultimately perfect machine?
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I am an apatheist
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>>35860164
Free will is just a meme. There is literally no philosophical justification for its necessity.
In fact, on top of being contingent, it actually creates contradictions unless you're an idealist.
I agree with >>35860314
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Play mgs2 genes and environment are not your god
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>>35860164
research indicates that the feeling of free will is mostly your brain making rationalizations about why you did things which were instinctual and spontaneous at the time
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>>35860562
>free will is just a meme
I want this to be said in the next deus ex game so bad
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>>35860164
Free will is a meme dumbo
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