Epigraph:

“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It’s like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can’t trust my own thinking, of course I can’t trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.” ― CS Lewis

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If you are a theist the above less than a minute clip of Sam Harris is a magical wand for you.

Sam Harris has been called one of the four horsemen of neo-atheism. The other three are Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett. Dennett is deceased but on this issue he will not agree with Harris.

While Saplosky, Harris and Galen Strawson outright deny free will Dennett tries to hedge his bets and his position is called compatibilism in free will.

In fact they debated each other on the issue and even though they did it politely. The fault lines on the discussion of free will spell utter chaos in the camps of atheism. In their zeal to deny Providence of God they have ended up denying free will.

Harris is promoting the position of Robert Sapolsky in the above short clip who has also debated Dennett. Watching these debates or studying that literature is an easy way to understand how hollow atheism is.

For starters, let me present refutation of Dennett’s compatibilism by Alex O’connor, another denier of free will:

This post is merely a teaser and I have covered the expanse of the subject in several other articles on free will.

Today let me simply conclude by a short three-minute video by Frank Turek:

Additional reading:

Atheist Philosophers and Scientists Possessed by Laplace’s Demon

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