----- Original Message ----- From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: The Conversion of John C Wright
> > On 5 Jan 2007, at 19:25, Robert Seeberger wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:30 AM >> Subject: Re: The Conversion of John C Wright >> >> >>> >>> On 5 Jan 2007, at 14:34, Robert Seeberger wrote: >>>> Indeed, for the entire faith thing to work God must always be >>>> unprovable and that is the crux of the determinism/freewill >>>> duality >>>> that is so essential to faith. >>> >>> There are religions that have a deterministic view and secularists >>> who argue for free will and vice versa. I'm not sure what your >>> point >>> is. >>> >> > >> Free Will is a very important concept with regard to sin. How can >> an >> act be evil/sinful if one has no choice in the matter? > > How can something be as simple as falling off a log if one has no > choice in the matter? > > Eh? Maru Heh! I think it obvious enough that I am arguing against a purely deterministic philosophy. I believe we do have choice and that without choice there can be no meaningful definition for the concept of "sin". There are philosophy/religions that argue for strong determinism, but in my opinion they downplay the role of consciousness and view the world as purely/mostly mechanistic. xponent Anthropic To Some Degree Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
