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Kasz216 on 24 October 2011
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Dr.Grass said:
Kasz216 said:
Dr.Grass said:
spurgeonryan said:
I had a funny reason that I wanted to add, but it would make Jay mad about recent things. By the way I have a thread about that if you want to share with all of us!

Humans do have free will. I just ate a carmel apple , did not have to, in fact something inside me (arteries) told me not to, but because of my free will I decided to eat it. Just like I decided to post here instead of the latest JoelCool7 thread, or one of my own.


That's not an argument at all. Just because things happened in a certain way and you feel you were the cause does not mean you are the cause - that's the whole point of this debate.


Maybe he's just an evolutionary biologist.  Oddly enough that's how most evolutionary biologists judge free will.


I seriously doubt that.


Well you'd be wrong then.

Most evolutionary biologists & Psycologists believe how we act is all due to DNA we were born with before we were born. 

Most also believe in free will.

This was found in more then a couple studies that gauged religious belief by scientific field of study.

Here's one of them.

We anticipated a much higher percentage for option B and a low percentage for A, but got just the opposite result. One of us (Provine) has been thinking about human free will for almost 40 years, has read most of the philosophical literature on the subject and polls his undergraduate evolution class (200-plus students) each year on belief in free will. Year after year, 90 percent or more favor the idea of human free will for a very specific reason: They think that if people make choices, they have free will. The professional debate about free will has moved far from this position, because what counts is whether the choice is free or determined, not whether human beings make choices. People and animals both certainly choose constantly. Comments from the evolutionists suggest that they were equating human choice and human free will. In other words, although eminent, our respondents had not thought about free will much beyond the students in introductory evolution classes. Evolutionary biology is increasingly applied to psychology.

https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3747,y.2007,no.4,content.true,page.5,css.print/issue.aspx