Until Further Titling – Week 2; Covenantal Love
Determinism is a self-defeating philosophy, because if a person does not choose beliefs and is programmed to believe a certain thing, he or she is incapable of truly believing anything. In truth, the value of the belief is chosen for already.
Even so, some people still support the idea – notably famous psychologists. Unfortunately, they are wrong, even in spite of recent findings in brain science. A four-part explanation of free will’s biological basis can be found here.
We can’t end there, though. If free will does not exist, the justice system can’t really assign blame to those who commit crimes.
But better than that is the physics. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle has shown that at an atomic level, the world is not controlled as rigidly as we believe…
Here is one of my favorite living physicists with the last word.