Free Will

“This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?” -- Max Planck

A believer in Free Will experiences pride, guilt, and shame. As a determinist, I should feel none of these, but my programming trumps my intellect.

God's Physics

Everything that exists is both a statistical impossibility and an
absolute certainty. An odds-maker at the time of the Big Bang would
deem it statistically impossible for a particular snowflake to have
fallen today,  yet the fact that one did makes it an absolute
certainty.

To exist, that snowflake required a unique and unbroken
chain of events to occur -- causes and effects -- from the start of
time. Was there an "Intelligent Designer" causing those "zillions"
of events throughout time and space? Or was it simply physics?