Free Will, Science, and Religion

A discussion of free will belief relevant to science, religion, biology, psychology, and philosophy. Guests and cohosts are welcome to join us. If you like talking about the difficult topics such as no the injustice of god sending people to heaven or hell in the absence of free choice, or other great talks about morality and social issues. This is the podcast you want to listen to and speak with us on!

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Update frequency: every 4 days
Episodes: 181
Years Active: 2015 - 2021

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An Update To All Subscribers

This is a quick update to all people who have subscribed to the old podcasts I hosted. I can revive them if I need to but I want feedback of what the listeners would like to hear.. This item has file…

Wed 21 Apr 2021

185. Alternate Ways to Avoid Blame

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and wsdtime try to list some different reasons people may not blame people for things even though they don't understand that free will doesn't exist.. This item has fil…

Mon 22 May 2017

184. Science Requires Unemotional Objectivity

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsdtime, and Juris discuss how we can have more productive discussions if we can manage to reduce our negative emotional reactions to things people do. Chandler and Geo…

Mon 15 May 2017

183. Veganism & Cultural Conditioning

Chandler Klebs, Poffo Ortiz, wsdtime, and Jessica Gillette talk about how we are all products of our environment and therefore can't help but have the beliefs and thinking that we do about every topi…

Mon 19 Dec 2016

182. How Do We Stop Trump?

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Mitch J, and wsd all started talking about the concept of how to stop people from doing harm without blaming them. A lot of it focused on Donald Trump a…

Mon 21 Nov 2016

181. The Biology of Decision Making

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, and Poffo Ortiz talk about how we experience our decisions. We start from the premise that we know we don't have a free will but dig deeper into exactly…

Tue 25 Oct 2016

180. How Can We make the World Better Without Free Will

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Quayd, Poffo Ortiz, and Peter Moriarty try to clear up some of the confusion some people experience upon being told that they don't have free will. It d…

Mon 17 Oct 2016

179. Libertarianism, Politics, and Economics

Chandler Klebs, Jamie Soden, George Ortega, wsd, and Trick Slattery talk about some things wrong with the libertarian political philosophy but also how free will belief plays into it. Also, Jamie Sod…

Tue 04 Oct 2016

178. Free Will, Intelligence, Nature and God

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsd, Logan Meyer, and Jessica Gillette struggle to define words such as choice, randomness, and intelligence. There are different meanings that different groups have in…

Tue 27 Sep 2016

177. Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism and Free Will Belief

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, wsd, Jamie Soden, Logan Meyer, and Trick Slattery talk about different economic theories and their possible connection with people's belief in free will. Also there was…

Mon 12 Sep 2016

176. Free Will Belief Ruins Logical and Ethical Thinking

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Poffo, wsd, Jamie Soden, Logan Meyer, Trick Slattery, Michael Walsh and Quayd intended to talk about the connection free will belief has to our beliefs. Understanding t…

Tue 06 Sep 2016

175. Defining and Refuting Free Will Part 1

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Quayd started this episode as a way to restart refutations of free will like the cohosts have done in earlier episodes. However, it became clear that part of the pr…

Mon 22 Aug 2016

174. No Free Choice in Politics

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Trick Slattery, Quayd, and Monique Lukens talk about the idea of a free choice related to recent events in politics. While this show mostly focuses on the fact that we …

Mon 01 Aug 2016

173. Libertarians or Compatibilists: Which is More Harmful?

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Quayd, wsdtime, Jamie Soden, and David Joseph discuss both the views of libertarians(those who say we have free will and determinism is false) and compatibilists(who sa…

Mon 25 Jul 2016

172. What is the Meaning of Choice?

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Mitch J, David Joseph, Michael Walsh, wsdtime and Quayd join in a conversation about why people believe in choice even though the term is vacuous when fully analyzed. F…

Tue 12 Jul 2016

171. The Laws of Nature Prohibit Free Will

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Trick Slattery talk about the laws of nature controlling everything that happens. For humans to claim that they have a free will is to imply that their…

Mon 04 Jul 2016

170. The Illusion of Separation

Chandler Klebs and Quayd talk about Nationalism/Patriotism and how it tends to divide humanity into separate groups which compete with each other rather than work together for all citizens of earth. …

Sun 03 Jul 2016

169. Free Will and the Self

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Logan Meyer talk about some of the most confusing topics of self, consciousness, intelligence, and what things we can or cannot know. How can we know w…

Tue 28 Jun 2016

168. The Free Will Belief Climate Change Denial Connection

Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, Jamie Soden, and Logan Meyer talk about how belief in free will is most likely one of the reasons that people claim that climate change is not happening. They may feel …