Re: An Accounting of the Soul

lee <schotness@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yet you advocate evolution, amongst other things, which is doggedly
biologically mechanistic & deterministic (in the reverse sense that b
must have come from a), with no room at all for free will.

What does evolution have to do with whether or not people are compelled
to make the decisions they do, the way a rock will always fall if you
let go of it?

And evolution includes a random component. In fact, mutations are usually
due to quantum effects (a stray particle hitting a strand of DNA, for
example) and therefore is provably random -- or at least, can be proven
to obey the law of large numbers. It's mechanistic, but NOT deterministic.

What I meant about the "law of large numbers". That's the statistical
principle which says that if you flip a coin a large enough number of
times, you're more and more likely to get 50:50. And 1/6 of all die
rolls land on a 6. (Some philosophize that this is the very definition
of the concept of probability.)

We can't prove that G-d is really using randomness. Only that His
Actions are consistent with a random model. But then, nature is all
about His "hiding" Himself...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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