Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne seems obsessed with denying free will. In a recent post on his blog, Why Evolution Is True, he supported the claim of theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder that we do not have free will:
If you've read this site, you'll know that my own views are pretty much the same as hers, at least about free will. We don't have it, and the fundamental indeterminacy of quantum mechanics doesn't give it to us either.
Hossenfelder doesn't pull any punches:
"This means in a nutshell that the whole story of the universe in every single detail was determined already at the big bang. We are just watching it play out."...
QED!
Jerry Coyne, "Sabine Hossenfelder says we don't have free will, but its nonexistence shouldn't bother us" at Why Evolution Is True Both Coyne and Hossenfelder are atheists, materialists, and determinists — a sort of intellectual dark triad — and their beliefs are scientifically and logically uninformed. They use denial of free will to prop up their materialist and determinist irreligion. It is not science; it is an ideological project, without a shred of science or logic to back it up.
There are three lines of evidence supporting the reality of free will: Neuroscience, physics and philosophy all point to the fact that free will is real. In this post, I'll discuss the neuroscience. But first, we must start by understanding what free will is. Erroneous definition of free will is at the root of many mistakes inherent in denying it.
It turns out that free will is rather hard to define rigorously, if taken all by itself. Many have tried. Definitions such as "choice that is uncaused," "choice that is an inclination that originates wholly within an organism," and "choice that entails the existence of alternative possibilities" have been proposed. Each is inadequate to the situation....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
