My results for the Belief-O-Matic...
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Mahayana Buddhism (84%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (82%)
4. Hinduism (82%)
On the bottom of the list is Roman Catholic, the church I grew up in...
I absolutely agree with your statement and the Hume article. Determinism is necessary for free will. If our actions didn't have a cause or purpose, we'd all just be running around in chaos. Although I think it's pretty obvious there's no case for indeterminism (which I'm assuming means that...
All that Determinism states is that everything is caused. So, going off of the definition of random - having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective; of or relating to an event in which all outcomes are equally likely - it looks as though the genetic mutations are uncaused. i.e. given the...
Has anyone applied this debate to the theory of evolution and natural selection? If the evolution is based on random genetic mutations, wouldn't that meant the mutations are uncaused? And if the mutations are uncaused, determinism would then be false.
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