Who throws the dice for you?

[pocaracas]

I'm confused about how this doesn't qualify. What is the difference between things that "cannot be explained (by local physical phenomena)" and "gaps in our understanding"? Is there somehow an "understanding" in things that cannot be explained? If so, what is it? If not, then it's a gap.

Yes, there is a scientific understanding(Bell's theorem) that quantum randomness cannot be fully explained by any theory of local hidden physical variables.

To say that the unexplained phenomena is "suggestive of God" sounds like you're trying to insert God into something we have yet to explain. As Ryantology already said, just because you can't explain X doesn't mean that Y suddenly become right (or more right). Y has to stand on it's own merits. How do you know its not Z? Couldn't randomness be indicative of unicorns, or something?

Ryantology's criticism can be applied against scientific conclusion...so its a crappy criticism. How do you know the cosmic background radiation is an artifact of the big bang and not a property of a steady state universe(or cosmic unicorns for that matter)? You don't. But if the big bang hypothesis were true, you would expect to observe cosmic background radiation. Since you observe this background radiation you have reason to increase your confidence in the big bang hypothesis.

If the God hypothesis is true, you would expect to find artifacts of reality which cannot be explained by hidden local physical variables. When low and behold this if found to be a fact of the universe....it gives you reason to increase your confidence in the God hypothesis.

It's a god of the gaps argument, even if the gap is unfillable.

If the God hypothesis is true, I'd expect to have physical evidence of said god interacting all over the planet in a like manner with the people... guess what? nope! Hence, following the rules of logic, there is no such god!

If there is a god whose sole responsibility is maintaining randomness at the quantum level, then what good is that god? Why worship it? Why believe it exists at all? It seems to be merely an intrinsic property of space... a random-giver.