When did God give man Free Will?

[SoFlaDem]

53. Is there really such a thing?

I would assume the concept of "free will" is simply a way to counterbalance the idea of devine preordination. In other words, if God makes and controls everything, then it would be God's fault, not my fault, if I am a bad person.

I do think that we are ALL colored with the religious concept of free will whether we want to admit it or not. From a scientific viewpoint, aren't we just animals that react to stimuli as a result of our past experiences and genetic makeup? We all react through part emotion (including empathy as well as fear) and part logic, and how much control do we have, really, over how those thoughts are processed and decisions made?

If I am taught it is immoral to eat animals my whole life, and no one presents me with an alternative view in my formative years, I am likely to recoil at the mere idea that someone thinks it is okay to eat meat. Free will or conditioning? Yet we almost all believe in certain objective standards that some things are innately "good" or innately "bad." Many of these things go beyond what is necessary for a civil society and are premised in certain assumptions about the objectivity of morality and man's ability to choose it.

Setting a date, it seems, would depend on a particular religious doctrine. If the religion is "creationist," Adam, the first man had free will and it fucked us good. If a religion believes God acts consistently with science, they may not profess to know the exact moment that set us apart from the animals.

Personally, I think that maybe man hasn't yet fully developed free will.