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Originally Posted by Berrum
In a universe without an omnipotent god, without souls, spirits and anything divine, can anything be random at all? Try to create an example!
For example, rolling a dice is not random by nature, it is simply beyond our minds (and computers) to predict its outcome, making it in effect random to us for practical reasons.
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1) How is rolling dice not random? I need to know your view on this before I can answer in a way that fits the argument.
2) Why does the existance, or lack thereof, of an omnipotent god make a difference whther true randomness exists?
3) One post mentions cause and effect. How does cause and effect not allow for randomness? It could be argues that false-random, such as a computers random which is seeded is not truly random, and therefore the cause (seed) creates the response. However, the effect of something has no bearing on whether or not the initial event was random. Therefore that statement, for accuracy's sake, should read that anything with a specific cause cannot be random. To further that end, what constitutes a cause?