RE: Who throws the dice for you?
April 11, 2014 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 4:18 pm by Heywood.)
(April 11, 2014 at 11:53 am)Fromper Wrote: I'm suddenly reminded of the TV show "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles". In one of the later episodes, a pre-terminator robot is being "taught" like a child how to interact with humans, and one of the scientists is playing D&D with it. The robot manages to roll a couple of 20s on a 20 sided die to get very good results, which the scientist teaching it thinks is lucky until someone else points out that the robot can probably manipulate the die well enough to roll a 20 any time it wants to.
A game of Dungeons and Dragons requires an element of randomness which is provided by the roll of the die. The universe needs an element of randomness too. But where does this element of randomness come from? I have a hard time accepting the idea that randomness just exists. In my mind the universe is either super-deterministic or there is a non-physical non-local element to reality in which randomness is being generated.
If a supernatural God is throwing the dice for us, I would expect that from our perspective randomness would just appear to be. As this happens to be the case in my mind a quantum mechanical world fits very nicely with theism. If I were an atheist, I would be stuck with super determinism.
Is that all you atheists have is super determinism or is there something else that I am missing?
