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Originally Posted by mercuryrising  It's a lot easier for me to digest than the world is a bunch of random events and the universe is going no where. |
But there aren't just two possibilities, random events universe going nowhere versus everything is imagined. There is a whole range of scientific world views. When I talked earlier about random events it would be a mistake to think that I meant that everything is utterly random. When astronauts can calculate how to fly a space probe to a particular spot on the surface of Mars, that is because events are not random, but have predictable patterns of behaviour according to certain physical principles. If their work bonus turns out to be exactly the same as their telephone number, most of them understand that as a random coincidence, as remarkable as it may be.