Free Will Is Real and Materialism Is Wrong

I've written before in reply to materialist Jerry Coyne's assertion that free will is an illusion. The gist of Coyne's denial, shared by others of course, is that nature is deterministic and that the mind is a wholly material process, yoked to the laws of physics and to an organism's evolutionary history. Thus, our choices are completely determined and free will is an illusion.

I've already pointed out his error on the question of determinism. Today I'll focus on his error regarding the mater...