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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7836)	9/4/2001 8:09:55 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Can you explain to me why it would be the path of least resistance for the future not to be fated? The way I envision chains of causation are almost infinite chains of dominoes falling in all directions- it seems to require very little energy. I am having trouble understanding how randomness would have less energy.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7836)	9/5/2001 1:22:43 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I do believe in randomness and therefore free will. Although I've often heard that determinism makes free will impossible, I've never heard that randomness necessarily leads to free will. Which is more distasteful?... A universe where your actions are predetermined from the beginning of time. Or A universe where your actions are determined as you go along by coin flipping. I have trouble seeing how the type of "free will" that most people like to believe in is in any way related to the existence of randomness.