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=== Objections ===
 
=== Objections ===
 
Some challenge this argument on the basis that premises one and two have not been proven.  They argue:
 
Some challenge this argument on the basis that premises one and two have not been proven.  They argue:
* Those ascribing to [[compatibilism]] believe that our experience of free will is still compatible with naturalistic causes even if the mechanism that causes this to be is not yet known.  Since this can not be disproven, it is possible for free will to exist in a naturalistic system.
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* In challenging premise 1, those ascribing to [[compatibilism]] believe that our experience of free will is still compatible with naturalistic causes even if the mechanism that causes this to be is not yet known.<ref>"The Astonishing Hypothesis is that "You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and '''free will''', are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules ... Free Will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus."  Francis Crick, ''The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul'', Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1993, p. 3, 268.  </ref> Since this can not be disproven, it is possible that free will exists in a naturalistic system.
* Those ascribing to [[determinism]] simply believe that free will does not exist and no one has free will.  Therefore there is no importance to the concept of God.
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* In challenging premise 2, those ascribing to [[determinism]] simply believe that free will does not exist and no one has free will.  Therefore there is no importance to the concept of God.
    
==Consciousness==
 
==Consciousness==
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