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1. What is the role of free will to an atheist?

Comment #112224 by timmur on January 16, 2008 at 3:34 pm

Bitbutter got it right when he said the usual understanding of freewill is incoherent. In order to have freewill in the strong libertarian sense, we'd have to be the cause of ourselves, a logical impossibility. See Galen Strawson's "Luck Swallows Everything" (sorry, I don't have the link handy, but just Google it) for a good overview of the debate and an irrefutable argument against freewill.