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On the other hand, if there is *no* God, is free will possible? Can free will exist without the "soul," which is supposedly created by God. Do animals have free will, or are they just acting according to biological demands and instincts? If there is no God to create free will, how can human beings claim to have it? Without God, aren't humans, also, simply reacting to chemical reactions in the brain, biological and external stimuli, and instinct?

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You can be an atheist without being a materialist. In other words, there can still be a non-physical part of us making decisions in a non-deterministic way (a mind is probably a more acceptable term to these people than soul). If the physical world is created by some non-divine source, there doesnt seem any reason the mental world cant have been created by the same source.