[guesswest]

Again, there is no reality which god did not create, that's how god is defined. Whether there is some reality completely external to the human condition is entirely irrelevant, if he didn't create all such realities, he is not god.

And with regards to there being no need to prove that internal functioning is more potent than external influence in human decision making: As I said originally, I DON'T think it's obvious, I'm a determinist, I don't buy this. I'm just playing devils advocate here and pointing out that those things which are empirically manifest can in some cases produce reliable data without the ability to rationally quantify, and that to that end we shouldn't dismiss this idea entirely just on the grounds that we can't measure it. I just don't think free will is a good example of an empirically manifest truth, there's too much grey area to consider it one - I don't think it's that apparent.

And the last thing was just another example of an instance where empircal evidence is reliable. The empirical evidence is 'it's hotter when the sun is out' - that information was clearly reliable way before we ever conceived of temperature scales.