University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne has now posted, at his blog, Why Evolution Is True, a reply to a talk I gave in March at the 2026 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. In the talk, presented by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, I discussed the reality of free will, and criticized the coterie of scientists, specifically neuroscientist Sam Harris, primatologist Robert Sapolsky, and Coyne himself, who deny it. I welcome Coyne’s reply — the free will debate is vitally important to our understanding of ourselves and of our society. I believe that we have libertarian free will. That is, we can freely choose our actions to a substantial extent. We are certainly influenced quite powerfully by emotions and motives that are not under our immediate control and sometimes overwhelm us. But we do have some degree of genuine freedom to choose how we respond to these drives. We are not meat robots. I offer four strong arguments to support that view: Everyone believes in free will. Even free will deniers do. …