ecological situation, we are free to consider appropriate behaviors within an environmental and societal matrix of demands, since our freedom serves the interest of the deterministic evolutionary system and is rooted in our “genetically

that nature is open to the free actions of God and people, and particularly bad news to those who mistakenly appeal to chaos theory to establish this. On the other hand, chaos theory will be irrelevant to theologians operating with a supervening

(for example, a cloud of free electrons permeating the metal of which a ladder is constructed) may realize a variety of supervenient dispositional properties (in this case, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, opacity). An

permit our experience of free agency ), and realism (not only the general claim that the world can be known through science but the explicit claim that “epistemology models ontology ”). The reality thus known must include the

proton-proton scattering in free space). The phrase “the collapse of the wavefunction” is used loosely to suggest “what happens” during a measurement, where the inapplicability of the Schrödinger equation and thus

are complementary; one is free to privilege the level of explanation that is most relevant in a particular context.Watts considers two developments in attempts to understand the involvement of neural processes in religious experience. The first

both physical processes and free human actions to mean any pattern, regularity, process, or relationship, and its description. ‘Law’ is thus used to describe or explain order. It does not necessarily imply determinism . Stoeger

requires that persons be free to develop their intellectual, moral, and spiritual capacities by acting in an environment that is lawful, impersonal, and at an “epistemic distance” from God. This entails both that we can do moral evil

of mental causation and free will with neurobiological causation.  But I stop here and I have saved you 20 minutes to ask me questions. Topic Index Next > Getting Mind Out of Meat -

people and still move freely among the culture's elite). Cultural pariahs can keep you honest in ways that the respectable elements of society never do (John Stuart Mill would no doubt have approved). Or as it's been put, "You're never so