Absence of Freewill argument for the existence of God
By well-wisher
Fri, 10 Jun 2016
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Premise 1: If all nature has as much or as little freewill as me then all nature makes decisions AS MUCH AS I DO and that decision making thing could be called God.
Premise 2: Human freewill is an illusion; human beings don't really decide anything because all that I do is determined by genes, environment, circumstance, cause and effect; in other words all my decisions are determined by factors beyond my control.
Premise 3: What all Nature (all its parts and as a whole) does is similarly detemined by environment, circumstance, cause and effect and, if it is a living part of nature, genes.
Conclusion: All nature has as much or as little freewill as me and so all nature including sticks, stones, rivers and raindrops; even subatomic particles make decisions AS MUCH AS I DO and the decision making of Nature could be called God.
Argument rephrased -
X: Nature is not a decision making thing as I am.
Y: But you don't make decisions.
X: Then maybe Nature is AS MUCH a decision making thing as I am.
Premise 2: Human freewill is an illusion; human beings don't really decide anything because all that I do is determined by genes, environment, circumstance, cause and effect; in other words all my decisions are determined by factors beyond my control.
Premise 3: What all Nature (all its parts and as a whole) does is similarly detemined by environment, circumstance, cause and effect and, if it is a living part of nature, genes.
Conclusion: All nature has as much or as little freewill as me and so all nature including sticks, stones, rivers and raindrops; even subatomic particles make decisions AS MUCH AS I DO and the decision making of Nature could be called God.
Argument rephrased -
X: Nature is not a decision making thing as I am.
Y: But you don't make decisions.
X: Then maybe Nature is AS MUCH a decision making thing as I am.
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