Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

One subject that's fascinated me for a long time is the subject of free will, especially

because all different kinds of people seem to have denied its existence throughout history.

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and

Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I want to share with you an interview that I did with Psy Kellet on the Catholic Answers

Focus Podcast.

It's kind of a part one of a two-part interview, but both interviews kind of stand on their

own.

In the first episode I did with Psy, I talked about how atheists often deny the existence

of free will.

And what they will do is they'll appeal to findings in neuroscience.

They'll say, look, you and I are just brains.

We are matter in motion and our brain decides what we do.

And it's the title of this episode, did my brain make me sin?

Part two, which I'll air next week, is from Christians who deny the existence of free

will and say, well, it's not our brain that makes us do what we do.

It's God because he's in charge of everything and he causes everything.

So that'll be part two next week.

But for this week, I want to talk about secular advocates of the denial of free will.

People like Sam Harris or Daniel Dennett, though they deny free will in different ways,

as you'll see in this interview.

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