Science and Free Will

Questions and Topics Covered:

• 17:54 - A Ted Talk discussed leeds in the brain affecting short term memory. People kept repeating the same questions over and over again and they were giving the same responses over and oven again. It sounds like it goes against free will because their minds come to the same words over and over again.
• 28:02 - I’ve been diagnosed with a mental illness. Can I use free will to follow Jesus? And to defend my family?
• 33:12 - Do you consider the ability to think abstractly in terms of an individual species as distinct from universals?
• 42:05 - Without free will, we cannot have intelligence. Stephen Hawking said we are machines. What is your take on this?
• 46:07 - I was raised as a reformed church person. Do you believe in predestination?
• 49:22 - How can we have free will if the way God created each person as an individual and every decision made is based on God having created every circumstance?
• 51:49 - Is free will the ability to deny your basic physical instincts?