It would make us puppets if our decision making was controlled exclusively by our environment, and the creator who dictated that environment would necessarily be the puppet master. I will not doubt the existence of a transcendent spirit, and therein lies the power of choice. A non-transcendent spirit, existing in only the physical world, is controlled by it's environment.

And my bible doesn't say that.


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.