Free Will, Science, and Religion

Chandler Klebs and George Ortega continue their talks about God and the Universe. In recent episodes, George has presented his case that God is the Universe. Chandler has a different idea than George based on the idea that life creates life through various means of reproduction....

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In part 2 of this series, George Ortega, Chandler Klebs and Jamie Soden explore a proof of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God based on the following commonly held attributes, which are listed on the Wiki page....

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Following from our lack of free will, George Ortega presents a logical-scientific proof for the existence of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God that is based on similarities between God's commonly-held principle attributes and the fundamental properties of the physical universe....

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Mitch J, Trick Slattery, George Ortega, and Chandler Klebs talk about some different types of compatibilism and the reasons why compatibilists feel the need to keep people believing in free will. This was an extremely long episode, but these are extremely important for us to explain because compatib....

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Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about how most of the time we are not able to do the things we want to do. Most of our time is spent doing what we need to survive. Rarely do we act on our desires....

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Mitch J, Chandler Klebs, Michael Walsh, Trick Slattery, and Jamie Soden talk about a variety of topics. The cohosts have a lot of trouble when it comes to defining certain terms such as rationality, natural, supernatural, religion, or intuition....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Mitch J, and Jamie Soden talk about morality. Truth be told, George, Mitch, and Trick did most of the talking. Since we understand that we don't have a free will, we don't credit or blame people for doing what we consider good or bad....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime talk about the omni attributes which are usually assigned to God in monotheistic religions. George reinterprets these terms to make the case that God is the same thing as the Universe....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime(AKA Will) talk about the difference between the ability to do what we want and the ability to choose what we want. Will may feel that his decision to eat a certain food or play a specific game are up to him, but he did not choose his preferences to begin wi....

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In the last episode, Michael Walsh raised the question of whether we should explain the illusion of free will to religious people or whether they must first give up their religion before they are able to accept that they don't have a free will....

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