Many people often wonder what influences their choices, why they do the things they do, and why the world works the way it does. Many like to argue that people make the choices they make because things are determined by nature and nurture, and not by other factors. Others like to argue that people have full control over the choices they make and that there are no constraining factors. In this article I will demonstrate that determinism is false and that people are not typically determined by nature and nurture to carry out the evil actions that they do. I will identify what determinism is, the different forms of determinism, why people find it true, why I find it false, and show several examples of why. Then I will go on to discuss free will, different forms of free will, and why people do things out of free will. The definition of determinism “The world is governed by (or is under the influence of) determinism if and only if, given a certain way things are at a time t, the way things will be subsequently is fixed as a question of natural law." The root of the philosophical idea is that everything can be explained or that everything has a reason for being and being as it is and nothing else. There are also different types of determinism that people believe in. Soft, hard and random determinism are the three different types of determinism. Soft determinists believe that free will is compatible with determinism. They believe in determinism, but they believe that free will can be present. "According to this soft determinism perspective, a person's behavior can be caused by internal psychological states which, in turn, have causes, but if no immediately pressing external agent influences the behavior, the person is said to have free will. " (Ogletree&Oberle, pg .98...... middle of the sheet......Matile Ogletree and Crystal D. Oberle, Behavior and Philosophy, vol 36, (2008), pp. 97-111The problem of evil and 'moral indifference, Tim. Religious Studies, vol. 35 (September 1999), pp. Carl, Hoefer, “Causal Determinism,” Stanford University, January 23, 2003. Web 2013. McKenna, Michael, McKenna,. “Compatibilism.” Stanford University, April 26, 2004. Web. November 21, 2013. Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and the Ability to do otherwise, The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 4, Harry G. Frankfurt's contributions to theory of Moral Responsibility (1999), pp. 341-350 "Two-Stage Models for Free Will." Np, nd Web. 23 November 2013. The Organization of Evil, C. Fred Alford, Political Psychology, vol. no. 1 (March 1990), pp. 5-27