re: Philosophy: Do you believe in a deterministic or indeterministic universe?

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Really? So there are repeatable, controlled, falsifiable, peer-reviewed experiments being done so we can see free will, or lack there of, in action?

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There are experiments (of the characteristics you have described) which shed light on specifics of the basis of free will, allowing those of us who read them to draw conclusions. For instance, the Libet study I mentioned earlier has to do with a neurological event called readiness potentials. In the study, he records the time of conscious intention to act in relation to the cerebral initiation (readiness potential). He found that there is unconscious activity in the brain seconds before the supposed "voluntary" act took place by the participant.