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Some physicists (e.g. David Bohm) have attempted to shoe-horn the theory into a deterministic framework using a system of mysterious "hidden variables", but few scientists accept this because it relies on things which we do not (and could not) have any evidence for.
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Just a quick one on these 'hidden variables' - The fact that something is hidden, and may never be accessable to us in terms of evidence does not mean that it is not there. This may sound counter to the scientific method too, but it's not as disconcerting as the notion that true randomness may be at play only at the subatomic level, when everything else in the universe appears to be so nicely ordered.
Plato's Allegory of The Cave (
http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm) though it was written to describe those who did not know his Theory of Forms, could (and I believe may) apply here.