It's not a simple logical step at all. We have little idea about how the inner workings of the brain work, so we certainly can't say if it's possible to determine the future state of it or not.
If it's a purely physical phenom, then surely it can be explained.......if not, then surely God made it. Either way, everything was predetermined......
No Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle shows that absolute determination of the state of a system is impossible.
That's because of the collapse of the wave function, not because the system doesn't operate in predetermined fashion.
Also, just because we are subject to physical forces, that does not mean the end result is entirely deterministic for precisely the reasons we've discussed above.
This is an anti-materialist point of view.
As an example, take an electron diffraction experiment. Basically you have a double slit, and you fire an electron at it, then measure where it lands on the board. If you fire a single electron at the slits, in full knowledge of the physical forces being applied to it, where will it end up? Who knows, it's not determinable.
It's perfectly predictable what the WAVE will do though.
Without free will there is no choice. Without choice there is no accountability for our actions, and forgivness becomes stupid.
This is your opinion. Not Christian doctrine.
Without free will there is no reason not to simply create everyone in heaven, only creating those that would meet the requirements.
This could be said, regardless of whether free will exists.
I have a feeling that the thread for discussing free will already exists anyway, so we should probably just find that..
Sounds good to me.
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