Blogs Posts on "Free Will"

The Freedom of Creation Is to Blame? by New Leaven on Nov 19, 2009Not to be confused with the freedom of humanity. So instead of blaming the evil and suffering that we humans continue to both live with and complain about, seeking answers here and there, Why not blame the freedom of creation—the freedom that A...

seminarian confusion by walking on water on Nov 7, 2009In most Christian seminaries of international repute today, the subject of textual criticism is taught to the extent that if brought to its logical conclusion, will raise up more agnostic than christian clergy. Biblical textual criticism is a subject...

free will by walking on water on Nov 1, 2009“Wind back the tape of life; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay. We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own...

Does our having free will mean God isn’t sovereign in our lives anymore? by Featuring: God and Philosophy on Oct 27, 2009If God is really in control in every detail and aspect of our lives, how can we say that we still have free will? But if we have full control of our lives and choices, how can we say that God is in control?

Darwinism:What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 4) by xenophon-19 on Aug 1, 2009Looking now at altruism we will assume that we can have free will, and will be asking the next question, which is – can our choices be moral? The two conditionals I will look at are: if we are only the result of natural selection, altruism is an il...

Do Human Beings have Antennas? by Sddiction In The 21st Century on Jul 30, 2009I know. But on my continuous journey towards understanding thought, I’ve come to suspect that the Pineal Gland is somehow linked to higher thought (like an antenna). So what I did is search “do human beings have antennas?” and got a...

Darwinism: What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 3) by xenophon-19 on Jul 25, 2009This leads us onto the next divide on the scope of Darwinism, dualism/materialism and the problem of determinism. In both above views of materialism, humans are only products of forces that existed before us, so we cannot be responsible. The implicat...

Darwinism: What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 2) by xenophon-19 on Jul 18, 2009There are certain conditions under which people are not normally blamed for something they have done. These are quite familiar: mental incapacity, illness, provocation, self-defence, insanity etc. In some of these cases we regard blame and punishment...

Darwinism? What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? by xenophon-19 on Jul 11, 2009Before understanding what the implications of Darwinism are for the ideas of responsibility and altruism, I will consider what our ideas about both these terms actually mean. Very briefly, responsibility is the capacity for free will, that we are ind...

Sathya Sai Baba on ‘free will’ by Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed on Jun 14, 2009Sai Baba is wildly ambiguous about whether or not there is any kind of ‘free will’. Now and again he says that ‘there is no free will’, and contradictorily also ‘only God has free will’. Sai Baba has also frequentl...