(January 5, 2013 at 2:49 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Generally those things have been deemed as unexplained, or unknown. Whether or not it's random (or seemingly random - whichever the case may be- would likely have less to do with whether or not the mechanism is unknown than it would with whether or not this unknown mechanism was predictable. Some scientists may hope that it's a temporary state, but there's no guarantee of that. It would be disappointing to find that some secret of the cosmos was forever locked to scientific inquiry, but not being an oracle or soothsayer how could this be ruled out? Science doesn't "believe anything, because science is a process. An individual scientist might believe that, sure, or they may not, or they may throw their hands in the air and say "I don't know". Some may hope that we could eventually -figure it all out- while believing that we probably wont. You're free to come up with as many juxtapositions as you please, we are talking about people here after all.
1 Random probably isn't the word you're looking for. Some things can be and have been (in many respects)complete unknowns - while not being random at all
2 I wouldn't know what scientists overall believe, or if they believe.
3 We've already found one huge area we may never be able to penetrate (and we have some compelling reasons for that suspicion- though they themselves could be argued to break down at this point as well).
4 There are already plenty of questions science can't answer, a great many of them have to do with things that are very well known. Depending on who you ask though, they might tell you that while science -could- answer this or that, the answer might be less than satisfying. For example, should I have crackers with my chili?
Before you can explore, You might want to seriously consider whether or not you're already laboring to smuggle in some magic.
So would it be fair for me to place each individual random event as by their nature in to the category of unknown. Smuggling in magic mmh where could I put it as it doesn't exist in my philosophy any more than yours.
