09-06-2009, 09:03 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I watched Ben Steinâs Expelled No Intelligence Allowed a while back, and I was surprised to find a professor arguing that evolution necessitates man not having free-will. So I searched the Internet and found this idiotic notion fairly widespread. I say that lack of free-will can only be enforced by a deity. For an atheist evolutionist to argue that evolution means we have no free will is just asinine. A random process doesnât have the power to predetermine all your choices.
âEvolution implies that there is no Godâânot anymore than Marcionâs suggestion (if Tertullian wasnât exaggerating Marcionâs beliefs) that an evil god created the world or the Gnostics and the Demiurge. In fact, why couldnât evolution be the demiurge, if you will. The notion of evolution without mind has never made sense to me. No process can be totally random and work. There has to be some sort of intelligence behind it somehow.
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âEvolution implies that there is no Godâânot anymore than Marcionâs suggestion (if Tertullian wasnât exaggerating Marcionâs beliefs) that an evil god created the world or the Gnostics and the Demiurge. In fact, why couldnât evolution be the demiurge, if you will. The notion of evolution without mind has never made sense to me. No process can be totally random and work. There has to be some sort of intelligence behind it somehow.
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