Originally posted by katherine94:[..]
But I think you do have control. You have control over your life but once your dead, that's that
Actually no, because if there is no 'soul', your consciousness (which determines what you think and do) is determined by all the electrical signals going around your brain.
And in turn these electrical signals are determined by the interactions of the billions of atoms and molecules that make up your brain.
Now we know from science that all these particles follow a set of rules, so that if you knew the initial state of the system, you could calculate what would happen anytime in the future.
And so it would turn out that all your thoughts (and actions) were all predetermined before you were born, when your brain was developing.