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What books can I read that would give me a good idea of what atheists / evolutionists think about the human will-- and how Christianity refutes it?
An atheist told me a couple of months ago that
1. Love, hatred, courage, fear, compassion, anger, etc-- all of these are chemical reactions that we have developed to further the species, &
2. That I am a Christian because the fundamental thing I can't stomach is unmeaning, whereas the fundamental thing that he can't stomach is that the will has no dignity.
I did wonder at the time, what dignity there is in a choice between merely chemical reactions, and also whether he even has a choice between them. Also, isn't the will non-material if it has a choice, even between material things? --He obviously doesn't believe in the non-material.
This keeps stewing in my head, and I have been thinking, isn't the dignity of the will his version of "meaning"-- I mean, can he really stomach unmeaning any more than I can? If he once saw that under his evolutionary philosophy, his will had no dignity, wouldn't it be repugnant, unthinkable to him, because foundationally what he believes in is not matter, but his own will? Are most evolutionists so contradictory on this point?
An atheist told me a couple of months ago that
1. Love, hatred, courage, fear, compassion, anger, etc-- all of these are chemical reactions that we have developed to further the species, &
2. That I am a Christian because the fundamental thing I can't stomach is unmeaning, whereas the fundamental thing that he can't stomach is that the will has no dignity.
I did wonder at the time, what dignity there is in a choice between merely chemical reactions, and also whether he even has a choice between them. Also, isn't the will non-material if it has a choice, even between material things? --He obviously doesn't believe in the non-material.
This keeps stewing in my head, and I have been thinking, isn't the dignity of the will his version of "meaning"-- I mean, can he really stomach unmeaning any more than I can? If he once saw that under his evolutionary philosophy, his will had no dignity, wouldn't it be repugnant, unthinkable to him, because foundationally what he believes in is not matter, but his own will? Are most evolutionists so contradictory on this point?