He Lives: Honest Science

I love David Heddle's blog. It's cool. He considers a scientific article from Scientific American entitled Scientists say free will probably doesn't exist, but urge: "Don't stop believing!" This post is pointed and funny. I can't tell if David Heddle, himself believes in free will but considering his reformed views and his appropriate lampoon of the article I'd think that he denies that all of us have free will. His observation was so interesting, I have to quote a portion of it.

He Lives: Honest Science: "Silly scientists.
(a) Telling us to believe in something that they cannot demonstrate or explain and
(b) actually do not think is even real.

That's worse than theists! At most we are guilty of (a), but not (b).

Of all the things with which you could fill in the blank: Without God there is no [blank], one of the hardest things for atheists to address is free will.

Morality? Altruism? Evolved, evolved, next question?

Free will?

"*crickets chirping*"


There is no scientific explanation possible for free will. True free will, if it exists, is inherently supernatural. By its very definition it involves circumventing nature. The universe's differential equation is leading you to perform action A, but you rise up against nature's next time-step and choose B instead.

Hey nature, you didn't see that one coming didja?, you dumb old broad!"

Okay...I think I'm done laughing now.