randman writes:
The laws of gravity, etc,..pre-exist and reflect design and order, right?
In other words, the process reflects a program that provides for some seeming randomness from our perspective, if you put certain inputs into it.
But it will still fall, right? It does not just float off. There is predictability, a set of choices are predetermined even if the results are not exactly determined. It will be heads or tail every time, except maybe it could land on it's side.
If you shot it down from space at 100,000 mph, it would vaporize before hitting the Earth's surface.
Anyway, you can't get away from order and rules. I mean, if something always outputs a random result, that's a pretty simple rule that it's following. It's output would be, predictably, unpredictable.
If something outputs either a random or specific result, but at nonrandom intervals (say, every 3rd instance is random); that, too, is a rule that it's following. The first 2 instances are, predictably, predictable; and the 3rd is, predictably, unpredictable.
If something outputs either a random or specific result, but at random intervals; that again is a rule. The result is, predictably, unpredictable.
As everything
must follow
some rule (even if that rule is to follow no
other rule), the presence of rules cannot be used as support of any position.