Are You Controlling the Ball on the Screen?

"I try to reconcile free will in a framework where God is sovereign and the material universe does seem to follow a simple set of rules," he says. "To you as an observer, it seems like you're controlling it, even though you're actually not directly." The laws of nature are such that your hand moves, even though all the molecules and atoms in your hand are just obeying blindly the laws of physics. 'It wasn't a direct causal relationship. It was more subtle'