(April 14, 2014 at 8:31 am)tor Wrote: Heywood you are saying that randomness can't be explained by physical causes then it must have supernatural cause. But if god is random what does that explain? Randomness just exists. But it exists in another dimension. You just moved it. You didn't solve the problem.
Negative Tor
I never said it must have a supernatural cause. That seems to be your conclusion. I said there are 3 possibilities. I will repeat them for you.
1. A supernatural dice roller.
2. Bell's theorem is somehow wrong.
3. Randomness is not a function of ignorance but a property of the universe.
I said it would be incredulous to dismiss 1(and it is...many of you atheists are incredulous...you just don't realize it). Now I would like to add a 4th possibility that I thought of.
4. Hugh Everett's many world interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct.
I like 1 better than 4,but I like 4 better than 2 or 3.