(December 7, 2014 at 7:03 pm)Heywood Wrote:(December 7, 2014 at 6:54 pm)Surgenator Wrote: "Simply decide"They have evidence that it behaves randomly. The randomaness has a distribution (exponential) but no matter what you tweek, you cannot predict when a specific nucleus will decay.
They have evidence for an effect which has no local cause. This is exactly what a miracle is....yet it is not considered a miracle. Instead it is considered just the way the world works.
A miralce is an unusual or wonderful event that is believed to be caused by the power of God There is nothing unusual are worderful about a nucleur decay.
Your assumption that every effect needs a cause is wrong. The natural world doesn't work like that on small scales.
There are a lot of things that random. Electrons going to a lower energy state are random. Spin orientation of an atom is also random. Johnson noise is random. The small world is full of random behavior. When you go to larger the scale, the mean of these random behavior wins out. That is why it doesn't seem random on larger scales.
