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Originally Posted by zen_tom
A) What's the difference?
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B) Why throw our hands up in the air, shrug and give up now? We'd might as well go back to believing it was all thrown together in 6 days, with God tweaking at the edges to keep us all in.
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A) Random is the opposite of deterministic.
Saying that something is "random" is a statement about that event. It's an ontological thing.
Saying something is "unpredictable" is really a statement about us and out knowledge of that thing. It is an epistemological thing.
A "random" number generator is actually not random. It is deterministic, but unpredictable.
Measuring the spin of a photon is actually random.
as for B, I honestly don't know what that is directed at. Care to explain?