(April 11, 2014 at 8:25 am)Heywood Wrote: If I roll dice, the out come of the roll is completely random to me. However If I looked at the dice roll in sufficient detail....noting the initial point of contact, velocity, angular momentum, coefficient of friction, etc. the outcome becomes predictable. It would seem then that randomness is really just a function of ignorance.'Who...' is begging the question; 'What...' is definitely the better way of putting it but once again, it assumes a control mechanism for the resolution of quantum events.
This LaPlacian view holds true until you get to the quantum level. At the quantum level events happen which physicists tell us are fundamentally random. Fundamentally random is a hard pill to swallow when randomness appears to be a function of ignorance.
So who or what is throwing the dice for you atheists?
The simple answer is 'we don't know'. Physicists don't tell us that quantum level events are 'fundamentally random', they tell us that they haven't identified any control mechanisms therefore there's an appearance of randomness. So your point on randomness is badly formed and meaningless; I don't know you well enough to suggest if it's deliberately so...
But I'll bite: I'll go ahead and grant you a control mechanism. Please show how this would be evidence for 'god'.
Sum ergo sum