Determinism

To answer your question about the pedophile, if someone had all the same experiences and genetics as the pedophile, then the outcome of their lives would be the same; but this would imply that this someone and the pedophile are the same person, since the variation of genetics are unique to the individual, so this someone would not be its own being, but the pedophile himself or a clone.Well, there is another way to have the same genetics as someone else, and that is being an indentical twin. Still, it's very difficult for them to have the same exact environment.Re Quantum mechanics suggests free willI fail to see how the fact there is uncertanty in the movement of atoms, which is what quantum mechanics discusses, deals with the decision making process of the human mind. It is true that, say, now it would be impossible to predict what I would do 10 years in the future, and that seems to be the point of quantum mechanics, but if you were to go within seconds before a decision is made, and scan the brain of someone, you can predict precisely what they will do before they're even aware that they made the choice to do it. That was what the evidence I provided above shows. Just because there is uncertainty about human behavior for what will happen in 10 years, doesn't mean we suddenly have free will. Uncertainty doesn't prove there is free will. Another possible explanation for the uncertainty, besides free will, is that we simply just don't know all of the factors that lead to the decision making process of people or, more relevant to quantum mechanics, that we don't know what causes an atom to move. I just don't see how quantum mechanics supports the notion of free will. It seems like you have to do some convoluted thinking with quantum mechanics to do that. The evidence is pretty clear that the brain decides what to do before we even have a conscious awareness of it. If for example you were to realize how important exercising is for us, then perhaps you would be able to gather the will to start and stick with it.Well, I do realize how important exercise is. But this is getting somewhat off-topic.And since there is still so much we don't know about our brains and consciousness, who knows what will be revealed in the decades to come. You don't need to believe that a God exists in order for free will to be plausible, you just need to believe that you can change reality if you can change your thoughts.Change of thought usually occurs due to outside causes. Something triggers a change in the brain, which is a very plastic organ, and that allows us to think a different way. We wouldn't be able to think another way unless our brain chemistry allowed us to. Conclusion:In short, I believe the evidence I provided is pretty compelling about how free will likely doesn't exist and that determinism holds true. My opponent accepted all of the evidence, without realizing one of them pretty much is incompatible with the idea of free will: which was the experiments confirming that before a person chooses to do something, their brain is already firing up for it before you even have a conscious awareness of an illusion of choosing to do that action. My opponent hasn't showed instances where a person's brain doesn't fire up before their conscious awareness of actions. Instead, they attempted to use quantum mechanics to suggest free will, but it doesn't seem clear how it exactly supports the idea of free will. As I mentioned, just because there is uncertainty, it doesn't support the notion of free will, simply that there is some unknown variable going on.