On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 14:22 -0600, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > Can you say for certain nature is truly random? Just because the seed > may have occurred 13.7 billion years ago and we don't know what that > initial state was and we couldn't possibly calculate all the > interactions since, doesn't mean that everything since hasn't been > happening in accordance with some universal formula and in absence of > randomness. We know that there appear to be certain laws in physics, > would they not have applied to that initial state in a non random > manner? It may just be that due to the hugantic sample space from which > to draw arbitrary values that we think things are random. > > Food for thought :) > [/snip] > > Without order there cannot be randomness.
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