Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain Many scientists and philosophers are convinced that free will doesn’t exist at all. According to these skeptics, everything that happens is determined by what happened before—our actions are inevitable consequences of the events leading up to the action—and this fact makes it impossible for anyone to do anything that [...]

 The reason evil exists in the world is because god(s) gave us free will, right? Doesn’t look that way. Free will? Not as much as you think You’re going to press that button, right? You know you’re going to press it and then . . . you make a conscious decision and you press it, [...]