Spock,

There is evidence for rapid evolution.

Article about rapid evolution in a particular species.

In recent years, biologists have increasingly recognized that evolutionary change can occur rapidly when natural selection is strong

You should not scoff at those things you do not understand.

If you wish to discuss evolution rationally then I…[Read more]

Spock,

Did you say anything that is relevant to this thread?

Gene,

You seem to be wanting to make a new language.

Will is the ability to make choice.
Motivation is why I make a choice.
Free will does not mean free of all things. It just means God does not make my choice. An atheist would say faith. Others may to.

My ability to choose is not controlled by God or fate but it is controlled my my…[Read more]

T8,

I believe God has a hand in all things even mutations that are bad. I tend tend to view things we consider bad as Satan’s actions though God allows Satan to perform those actions.

Princess,

Scientists do genetically modification now. I have a picture of a child of one of their experiments. It is a cat that glows under a green light. That glow is a mutation so now we have artificial mutations.

We have thrown radiation and plants to cause mutations in hope is beneficial as well. It is called mutation breeding and…[Read more]

Gene,

It is a free will not a captivated will. What you call captivated is nothing more than the motivation.

T8,

We do play God but as far know we have not yet created a new kind. We have done some strange crossings of two kinds such as jelly fish genes being inserted into various mammals.

Gene,

T8 has a point about you addressing actual points you have and not sticking to an error you should realize you made. You are correct that we have free will only because God allows it. That is also cause and effect as the cause is God chooses not to control our will and the effect is our will is not controlled by God. Another effect is we…[Read more]

@T8,

Selective breeding has been around for centuries but a variation of it where the “selection” was done by natural process was one of the things Darwin required for his “theory”.

The other was mutation which was also know to exist by those who used selective breeding and selective breeding has been used from before writing appears.…[Read more]

Gene,

The cause is my motivations and I am judged by those same motivations. It is my motivations, not God’s or anyone or anything else’s.

In short I am the cause and that is free will.

T8,

Can you reorder the current topics by the time of the last post? They are unsorted and it is confusing.

@T8,

I am not sure if Gene is communicating his ideas correctly. He seems to believe that the fact there is a cause for our choices means we do not have free will. He has not been clear when I ask him if he believes God or fate controls our actions instead of us. He seems instead to believe we are responsible for our own actions.

Gene,

Kerwin……IT’S NOT A MATTER OF WE HAVE TO, IT’S JUST THAT’S, WHAT AND WHO WE ARE. IF YOUR WILL IS “CAUSED” IT IS NOT “FREE”,

Motivation is necessary for an excise of will to be free.

Why did I make the choice I did?

I have a reason for doing it, including I felt like it.
I have no reason for doing it.

At least some of the time the firs…[Read more]

Gene,

Kerwin……IT’S NOT A MATTER OF WE HAVE TO, IT’S JUST THAT’S, WHAT AND WHO WE ARE. IF YOUR WILL IS “CAUSED” IT IS NOT “FREE”,

Motivation is necessary for an excise of will to be free.

Why did I make the choice I did?

I have a reason for doing it, including I felt like it.
I have no reason for doing it.

At least some of the time the firs…[Read more]

Gene,

I choose to eat strawberries of my own free will. The cause is that I find strawberries to be good tasting. The effect that I choose to eat them.

That is a simplified causal chain and free will is part of the element.

You are using another definition of free will than the one I quoted from Merriam-Webster online.

the ability to make…

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Princess.

MRSA is evidence that adaptation occurs and nothing else.

It does not prove a mutation took place as no one knows whether or not some individual MRSA bacteria were antibiotic resistant previously. The evidence seems to reveal there was a low number of such individuals if they existed. Those few individuals reproduced because they…[Read more]

T8,

I am not sure if Gene is communicating his ideas correctly. He seems to believe that the fact there is a cause for our choices means we do not have free will. He has not been clear when I ask him if he believes God or fate controls our actions instead of us. He seems instead to believe we are responsible for our own actions.

Gene,

KERWIN…..By what working in our mindes, be it BY THE SPIRIT of the world, or the spirit of the living GOD. But either way it is all A CAUSE AND EFFECT responce. IMO, NOTHING FREE ABOUT IT.

I am not speaking of a causal chain as a causal chain and free will are not in opposition.

I am asking if you believe God or fate controls are a…[Read more]

Gene,

Do you believe our choices are controlled by either God or fate?