oldebayer:

Not to start yet another religious flamewar, but I, personally, do not believe in random numbers.

When it comes to computers and mathematics, at the very least, there are no random numbers--every random number generator, after all, must base its generation on previously established numbers.

However, as this book presumably demonstates, there are ways of getting numbers very close to random...


In terms of the entirety of existance, I agree with you--everthing happens as a result of the things that made it happen, and those things control how the event occurs--i.e., lottery balls do not pop up "randomly"--they are controlled by the positions of the balls, the air resistance the balls encounter, even the position of the Earth relative to the stars and planets.

I think that the religious would actually agree with both of us--that, even though God has a hand in things, he/she/it/them acts for a reason, not randomly. Hence, there's no need to fear a flamewar.


Wait a second. This is Fark. Who am I kidding?

Now that I'm done with the long and boring part of my post, let me add this:


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Anyone remember that part? It was SOOOOO funny.