What is predeterminism?

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:57 PM, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nothing is just nothing and thus cannot control anything i.e. no
> predeterminism.
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Chuck Bowling
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Scientists say that everything came out of nothing ,
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that there are no scientists who claim that everything
> came
> > from nothing. It's true that they don't understand the exact mechanism
> that
> > resulted in our reality but only the pseudo-scientists claim that we came
> > from nothing.
> >
> >> but they do not
> >> believe in predeterminism as to them nothing is just that and cannot
> >> control anything.
> >
> > I don't understand this statement. Can you clarify?
> >
> >>
> >> But to me that nothing is God and everything that
> >> comes out of It is predetermined.
> >
> > Ah. So you are saying that god is nothing. On that I would tend to agree.
> > OTOH, this common reality that we all experience is built on a foundation
> of
> > causality. Everything happens because something before it happened. We
> may
> > not understand the precursor event but that doesn't mean that it doesn't
> > exist.
> >
> >>
> >> The universe came out of nothing ,
> >
> > Disagree - but with the reservation that I don't know everything and
> don't
> > have a substantive argument beyond my own worldview to refute the claim.
> >
> >
>

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