2006-12-14 00:41:25 · 15 answers · asked by chicalinda 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Definitely NO ...
I am an atheist creator like you. I create atheists. I started with God. God is atheist because he has no God to believe in or worship. You see God is atheist. You can be one toooooo coooz atheists are God's chosen people, for he himself is an atheist.
2006-12-14 00:55:27 · answer #1 · answered by Crazy Kod II 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Free will comes from the absence of knowledge that would pre-determine your choices. For example, you have 'free will' to choose whom you can fall in love with because you have no 'previous knowledge' that would limit your choices.
This does not mean that such a person does not exist. It simply means that, by God not telling you everything you will know at this moment, you are free to make choices at the same time you do not change the outcome. You have 'free will' to input any answer into the equation 2 + 2 = ?, but your free will does change what the 'true' answer is. And even after you know the answer, you have free will to answer the question incorrectly, because your answer cannot change the nature of the 'true' answer.
Free will also allows a created 'thing' to discover the truth of itself at its own pace. There is a difference between 'knowing' what college you will attend (Knoxville University) and not knowing what college you will attend, going to all the fairs, looking up the brochures, visiting the campuses, and finally deciding upon one that fits your criteria (Knoxville University). Because the destination is inevitable, the result is an emphasis on the journey and how and why that destination is reached. Its not simply knowing that 2 + 2 = 4, its the finding out why its true. Free will is about the journey.
2006-12-14 00:56:00 · answer #2 · answered by Khnopff71 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everything living has free will which physically, is as open as the limits of the body they are living in (from a physical POV- consciousness is far greater).
And yes, this includes humans, animals and plant life.
Stationary objects... no.
People claiming animals have no soul are idiots. We descended from monkeys! Do we have no souls? And for the Christians/Catholics etc who don't believe in evolution, then they better return to the fruitarian diet that Adam and Eve were living on in the garden of eden.
Freewill is a very interesting concept that is only really addressed in religions like Buddhism.
2006-12-14 00:51:23 · answer #3 · answered by midsojo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely no. How can they have? The perfect creation that has only a freewill is man. God create man through His own image and He gave us freewill. A robot can only function when man take control. A computer only works when man used it. Man's creation has no sense at all...no heart to feel, no freewill exactly. It is only in the movie that the creation of man choose their own freewil yet in reality its baseless.
2006-12-14 00:53:03 · answer #4 · answered by joan_kol 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by /create/, /device/, /thing/,/object/, and /freewill/.
I would guess by your question you refer to inanimate ...or non-living items. I haven`t found much justification, other than some pantheists, for giving the freedom and responsibility of freewill to entities that are not alive.
So, NO!
2006-12-14 00:54:57 · answer #5 · answered by OldGringo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is talk that scientists are working on the virtual human...and there are also theories on cloning. For either to work properly, such creations would likely need free will to mimic the life that science would want to study from such.
Artificial intelligence certainly has us on the way to creating free will in objects...though as civilians, I'm sure we haven't seen just how far along they actually are with such.
2006-12-14 00:47:23 · answer #6 · answered by Gwydyon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No same goes for different body parts just being sewn in together to make a human.
All because all the parts are there does not mean it will work it needs one more thing LIFE and our Father God is the only one who can provide that. God Bless. Love. Amen.
2006-12-14 00:47:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
At present the limitations of science means that genuine free will in a man made machine is not possible but the time when the technology will exist to achieve it isn't far off.
2006-12-14 00:52:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anything and everything has 'Freewill'.....
Unless you are saying that only God is allowed to have it.
Precarious road that question opens up isn't it?
2006-12-14 00:53:19 · answer #9 · answered by wolf560 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A person's behaviour and actions are determined by:
1- The way he has been brought up
2- His genes which affects his personality
3- The circumstances in which he has grown up
4- His past experiences
And he can not choose or change any of these factors
So, where is free will?
2006-12-14 00:45:04 · answer #10 · answered by skeptic 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋