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winston · 4596 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ask Hubski: Does God's omniscience preclude free will?
Playing devils advocate: Some of faith would say that it is a "feeling" or an "inclination" that provides this "proof" or "evidence". This is something that cannot be proven but is described as being very "real" to those that claim it. Can a "feeling" count as evidence?
No. Feelings are wildly inconsistent from one person to another, and within one person from one moment to the next. Beyond that, there are scientific explanations for feelings (emotional responses) and those explanations are themselves rooted in evidence and experimentation. Witness something like Jesus Camp, where the attendees swear on their lives that they felt God's touch; when in reality those transformative experiences were fully engineered by the camp organizers.