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Brain Study Calls Free Will Into Question
siddster notes an account up at Wired of research indicating that brain scanners can see your decisions before you make them. "In a study published Sunday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers using brain scanners could predict people's decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them... Caveats remain, holding open the door for free will... The experiment may not reflect the mental dynamics of other, more complicated decisions... Also, the predictions were not completely accurate. Maybe free will enters at the last moment, allowing a person to override an unpalatable subconscious decision."
One theory for the multitude of religions is that many different men have made attempts to try to explain what is going on around them. Another is that there is some fundamental truth that people have departed from. So let us assume there is a true religion which has all truth. When people fall away from that religion they take many pieces, which they agree with, and substitute those they disagree with with other things. Once you have one corrupted religion many others break off and try to reform it but without proper authority they cannot reform. This is a start into a discussions but I cannot do it justice right here. When you have a firmer understanding it is amazing how it all fits together. If you would like to continue this discussion please email me at mulhollandj@gmail.com.