(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.
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?
How is a lack of knowledge any problem? Gamblers in the 16th century might have believed that a game involving dice was random, but now we have an understanding of physics that answers the question.
Likewise with quantum physics, we are merely 16th century men who are yet to understand it's deeper workings.
God-of-the-gaps is essentially what you're pushing for.
Not convincing.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle