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Well, if you check the Christian Debates in Renaissance France, the free press had had to fight against the incredibly well-funded christian church. And, the debates were basically modern amusement parks since no serious theological critique was publicly debated. But, they had conceptions that differed greatly from the bible. I'm confident that's different from Islam, whose serious scholars have trumped almost every modern, reformist thought. Sure, you can group Abu Mansor against Ibn Taymiyyah, but that's like arguing the difference between a spiral and a conventional staircase.

at some point you can rename those "external forces" to "internal forces"

I do not agree.

Without intrinsic causes you cannot exist.

Without "what you are made of" and "what you are " you do not exist.

your biology is caused by "external forces"

No it is not. It is the material cause which makes up the matter of the person. That is something intrinsic to the person. Without it, he has no proper existance.

and it's not free from anything

Never said it was.

and you support this hypothesis

with an "appeal to ignorance"

basically

"we don't know exactly what it is and exactly how it functions, therefore SPIRIT"

Care to site where this "appeal to ignorance" is?

Because I certainly never said "We dont know exactly what it is and exactly how it works, therefore spirit"

Do you like throwing words in peoples mouths?

"Gravity" is only a theory and it isa theory that is obviously flawed, we have mathematical formulas that work, butthey are descriptive rather than explanatory, to this day scientists admit thatthe so-called force of gravity cannot be explained. Our prevailing theory ofgravity is Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and it can’t bemathematically reconciled with Quantum Theory; it is clearly a theory incrisis.

A rival theory, “Intelligent Falling” makesmore sense, the simple fact is, things do not fall because of a mysterious andunexplained gravitational force, they fall because a higher intelligence ispushing them down. Atheist Gravitationists have been pushing the gravity agendafar too long, it is time we accept the theory of Intelligent Falling.

Please understand,  I’m not saying that Gravityshould not be taught in the science classroom, only that our students shouldalso be taught the theory of Intelligent Falling so they can make an informeddecision for themselves.

Its mostly a nonsense rule, but I guess its fun when some boy violates it and grows his hair long.

And obviously, no sane person can explain WHY we would have to pre-emptively attack Russia with our military.

Just make the bathrooms gender neutral.  That solves it.  At a place I worked at, there were cisgender dudes that went into the women's restrooms and nobody cared.  If there was a kid in the bathroom, then most of the time it would be locked.  If not, then the adults respect their space.

so the steelman is impossible? And we can safely disregard every deep state actor that says Russia is an "existential threat" as they won't get the US government to immediately stop an existential threat...(which you would if it was actually true, even animals fight to the bitter end)

Saying "Putin or Russia is an existential threat" is making this argument.

Saying "Putin or Russia is an existential threat" is making this argument. I would just like a logical person to steelman it.

The right has the chromosome standard for gender and this is majoritarian.

Can you make a steel-man for the argument we should invade Russia with our entire military using nukes if necessary?

If your argument is based on if they pass or not, then fine.

Internal causes maintain being, in order to maintain the things actions on external causes.

I am being very specific in my use of "free"

I am suggesting the intellect and will are a spirit.

and when I say spirit, I mean a non-physical entity that acts as the principle of the life particuler to humans.

It has nothing to do with creating itself, but rather maintaining itself.

I SAID THERE ARE DIFFERENT SENSES TO THE WORD "FREE", NOT DIFFERENT MEANINGS TO THE WORD "CHOICE!"

The computers random function has not consciousness. It acts randomly.

Not like us. We have consciousness of our descision.

Why can they not be understood, as in something you reasoned to?

In fact, If do not understand that they are options, you do not understand that they are possible, then you do not know there are options. That is absurd.

is your intellect not constrained by the limitations of your brain ?

In ipso, it is not. This means by itself it is not restrained by the brain.

It is restrained by the brain as far as what we call its "ad objectivo" meaning its object, what the brain produces, it uses.

As regards what it does it adds to the brain. What we call understanding.

You are making the “if they pass” argument.

have about a hundred randomly selected individuals look at a photograph of the "chair candidate" in question

I can find males by chromosomes and gender identity that most people would say are females.

No, Biden needs to move more left on those issues. I get how weird that sounds coming from the other end of the political spectrum, but yeah, he’s too moderate for me.

Mostly Gaza and Immigration

Biden has done a good-ish job as president, and all of my main issues with him is that he is too moderate,

What do you mean when you say, "Appear"?

How would RFK be a bigot?  I can understand the conspiracy theory part.

So if you look like a woman, then you are a woman?

That can be subjective, especially among 8 year old boys with long hair.

Divine action through quantum biology leads to unsavoury implications for theodicy. If God’s action in the quantum domain is not episodic, and instead God acts through quantum processes to actualise biological events like DNA mutations, then responsibility for diseases which come from such mutations must also lie with God. Cancer, for example, is caused by mutations in the genes that control cell growth. If responsibility for the quantum processes that cause genetic mutations lies with God, then by Robert Russell’s own account of bottom-up causality God is also responsible for the diseases themselves and the physical and psychological suffering they cause. To be consistent, the claim that moral responsibility is carried up the causal chain must apply to both praise and blame. If God is considered ultimately responsible for the higher-level goods which emerge moving up the causal chain, such as speciation, then mutatis mutandis he is also responsible for cancers and other similarly caused diseases. Cancer is one of the primary causes of death in humans and brings with it great pain and suffering; the claim that God is responsible jars with the idea that God is omnibenevolent and is a significant problem for Russell’s thesis.

People want to change that definition to include transwomen with dicks.  We need to go back to the drawing board.

Your biology and experiances are not external causes.

Nor are they comprised of them in ipso.

And if there is no difference between "choose" and "choose freely" then why are you saying we dont choose freely when we choose?!?!?!?!?!??!

My conscious choice is not a "roll-of-the-dice"

computer programs are definitely "goal seeking"

and computer programs certainly "make a choice"

Do they make a choice the same way we do?

Nope!

we can only imagine "possible effects"

Repitition of your point without proving it, especially if you just repeat it to act against an argument is a fallacy.

Intellect and will is not.

The will is of the internal cause, namely the formal one. It can act independant of external causes.

There are different senses to the word "free" It does not necessarily mean "free from"