(February 26, 2022 at 6:59 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(February 3, 2022 at 1:25 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: In Quantum Mechanics, there is causality, but it doesn't mean what Kloro thinks it means.
Initial conditions determine the probabilities of "caused" events, but do not determine the actual events themselves.
This only means that we don't have access to enough information to pinpoint the causes of these events. Still, no good reason to reject causality.
Merely assigning probabilities may be an expression of our limited knowledge. Only the all-knowing God determines the actual events, a theist can easily argue along these lines
Feel free to comment on my other thread of surviving a thermonuclear detonation in one's hometown.
In any case, I find it impossible to believe that there is a God who causes some U235 atoms to fission in an atomic blast (a necessary precursor to the hydrogen fussion bomb) while allowing other U235 atoms to turn into U236 atoms via neutron capture with a half-life of 1.5 billion years or so; these atoms, of course, do not contribute to the fission blast.