Think About This: Here’s Why Atheism Makes Free Will Impossible
Let’s stipulate for the moment that atheists are correct when they claim there is no god, that the universe exists solely in a material form and that human beings were not created but evolved as a result of material processes.
Well-known atheist writer and lecturer Sam Harris on free will (Screenshot from YouTube).
That is the conventional wisdom in the scientific community, as well as in popular culture, the entertainment world, the news media and throughout the academic world. “Everybody knows” that the material world is all there is, although the agnostic leaves a little maneuvering room by insisting there “may” be a god, but we don’t know that for sure.
But consider this: If we are entirely products of material forces, how do we account for the non-material human mind that thinks, reasons, and makes choices. In short, how can we account for human free will. The Apologetics Press’ Kyle Butt contends in the following video that if atheism is right, then free will is off the table:
Somebody at YouTube has quite a sense of humor, as this AP video on why there must be a god if humans are to have free will is bracketed at the beginning and the end by an ad featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson pitching his Master Class on logic. Nice touch there, YouTube!