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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (7855)	9/5/2001 2:42:35 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) of 28931

If the universe has random components, then it does not follow that everything is random. Randomness can exist within boundaries and apparently it does or even the appearance of cause and effect would not exist. Free will means neither that we are in full control of our future nor that we have no control over our future, it is somewhere in between. How does "randomness existing within boundaries" contribute to our control of the universe? As an example, suppose I flip a coin and it turns up "heads". We might imagine two scenarios: 1) The coin result was encoded in the stuff of the big bang and couldn't have turned out any differently. Or alternatively, God foreordained the coin to be "heads". 2) Some random process occurred (perhaps a change in the state of some subatomic particle) which caused the coin to turn up "heads". Neither of these scenarios seems to support that we have some control over the situation. Is there any reason to believe that this would change for a mixture of the two situations (randomness between boundaries)?

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