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...perhaps you “believe” you have free will.  Maybe you “think” you’re logical.  But then again, perhaps you are forced to believe and think that way due to the neuro-chemical wiring in your brain.  I have to ask.  How do you know that the neuro-chemical wiring in your brain doesn’t just produce a set of processes that force you to think and feel a certain way so that, according to evolutionary theory, your genetics can be passed down to other generations?  In this evolutionary, materialistic process, deception could be a reality provided it results in genetic descendants.  This way, your atheism is nothing more than a set of chemical states in your brain which forces you into certain beliefs and behaviors so that genes are carried on throughout the centuries.<ref>[https://carm.org/atheism-free-will-rationality A question for atheists regarding free will and rationality]</ref>}}

...perhaps you “believe” you have free will.  Maybe you “think” you’re logical.  But then again, perhaps you are forced to believe and think that way due to the neuro-chemical wiring in your brain.  I have to ask.  How do you know that the neuro-chemical wiring in your brain doesn’t just produce a set of processes that force you to think and feel a certain way so that, according to evolutionary theory, your genetics can be passed down to other generations?  In this evolutionary, materialistic process, deception could be a reality provided it results in genetic descendants.  This way, your atheism is nothing more than a set of chemical states in your brain which forces you into certain beliefs and behaviors so that genes are carried on throughout the centuries.<ref>[https://carm.org/atheism-free-will-rationality A question for atheists regarding free will and rationality]</ref>}}

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