I don't think we have free will. We are but a consequence of our genes and our environment. We can do as we will (as long as we are free from coercion, etc) but we cannot choose what we will.
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I don't think we have free will. We are but a consequence of our genes and our environment. We can do as we will (as long as we are free from coercion, etc) but we cannot choose what we will.
The genetics and environmental factors certainly play a role in determining our patterns of choice but we stll would have free will under those parameters.
Well, I'm not sure what definition of free will you are using, bt it must be a very soft one. You say that "at any given time we have an infinite number of ways to head into, and through conscious decision making, we are shaping our future." I'd argue that yes, at any given time we have a plethora of choices, but we cannot override our genetics and environmental history, our particular makeup and history will allow us to make only one choice at any crossroads.
Of course, sadly the question of free will is virtually unfalsifiable so we'll probably not see any answers coming in the near future (and I won't bother to address the even more unfalsifiable God question!). Whatever little evidence there is suggests our brain makes decisions before we are even consious of them, but that doesn't address the free will issue directly anyway.