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"Randomness" Does Not Exist "Randomness" Does Exist
Debate Score:10
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"Randomness" Does Not Exist in Reality

RANDOM IS A MYTH:
So-called "randomness" is a myth --
it has never happened in the past, it is not happening now,
and it shall never happen in the future --
it is an existential impossibility.

Prove me wrong and win $5,000.00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAvulwtmvU

"Randomness" Does Not Exist

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"Randomness" Does Exist

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1 point

The scientific works of James Gates would imply there is no "randomness", at least not in our reality.

Side: "Randomness" Does Not Exist
Quantumhead(749) Disputed
1 point

The scientific works of James Gates would imply there is no "randomness", at least not in our reality.

How so? Please show precisely how the "scientific works" of James Gates disprove randomness? Also explain why the search terms, "James Gates random", "James Gates randomness" and "James Gates disproves randomness" do not elicit any "scientific works" disproving the existence of randomness, you pseudo-intellectual nincompoop.

The only relevant information about James Gates is that he claims to have found "computer code" in string theory, and since the most basic computers in existence have random number generators, this does nothing to refute randomness.

Side: "Randomness" Does Exist
1 point

The premise here seems to be that everything has a cause and therefore nothing is random. I can agree that nothing is truly random, however things can be functionally random. Use of a random number generator to generate a number is functionally random, for example.

Side: "Randomness" Does Not Exist
Quantumhead(749) Disputed
1 point

The premise here seems to be that everything has a cause and therefore nothing is random

Then that premise is falsified by the cause itself being random. If I am suddenly struck by lightning, then the effect (my death) is caused by a random event.

Side: "Randomness" Does Exist
WinstonC(1225) Disputed
1 point

The lightning that killed you has a cause and it's cause has a cause and so on and so forth.

Side: "Randomness" Does Not Exist
1 point

Randomness obviously has a place or else a word would not have been created for it.

Side: "Randomness" Does Exist

You are an idiot who has been let loose on the internet without proper supervision. Random events happen in reality all the time. It is mathematics which randomness cannot be proven to occur in.

Side: "Randomness" Does Exist
Negligentt(397) Disputed
1 point

Or he's familiar with the research of James Gates and you are ignorant on the issue.

Side: "Randomness" Does Not Exist
Quantumhead(749) Disputed
2 points

Or he's familiar with the research of James Gates and you are ignorant on the issue

Actually, I am very familiar with James Gates, which is how I know he's a THEORETICAL physicist and not an EXPERIMENTAL physicist. But thanks for the spontaneous red herring you fucking retard.

Side: "Randomness" Does Exist
outlaw60(15368) Clarified
1 point

Random events were never mentioned ! Do you rabid Leftist just dream this stuff up ?

Side: "Randomness" Does Not Exist
outlaw60(15368) Clarified
1 point

The only idiot that arrived on the scene is you but you are to ignorant to figure that out

Side: "Randomness" Does Not Exist