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Pro-Choice Determinism

Tom Gilson

Sam Harris devotes eleven pages or so in The Moral Landscape to denying that human free will exists, because physical determinism governs every event.

Sam Harris says he is pro-choice.

I was wondering if anyone could explain that for me.

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Tom Gilson

Tom Gilson has been in ministry since 1979, most of those years with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru), but more recently in leadership with the campus apologetics ministry Ratio Christi, then as a senior editor with The Stream. Tom has written or edited six books, including the very positively reviewed Too Good to be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality, as well as A Christian Mind: Thoughts on Life and Truth in Jesus Christ, and Critical Conversations: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality with Teens.

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