DA wrote:

"I think there very clearly is an alternative and that alternative is to stay away from absolutes"

When there are only two logical possibilities, I don't accept 'stay away from absolutes' as a third, simply because at this moment in history the answer is unavailable. You may do so, that's your prerogative.

"There is no more evidence that would support the belief that my doing so was predetermined or the work of an invisible purple rhinoceros than there is proof that an invisible purple rhinoceros exists"

- Correct, there is no conclusive evidence either way for determinism/indeterminism; but in this case, your invisible purple rhinoceros is irrelevant - determinism does not require a creator (or an ipr)

"But it is not absolutist free will. I can not live to be 250 years old. No matter how much I may wish it"

- Indeed. No one suggested otherwise.

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler