Terribly flawed thinking demonstrated in the argument below, and clearly demonstrative of the use of ignorance and limitations.
First, there is absolutely nothing at all random about the shuffling of cards.
It is 100% physics, 100% purely physical. There are no violations of physical law during the shuffling of the cards, nothing fundamentally random about it.
Simply because someone lacks the tools to accurately and precisely know all the details of the shuffle which influence the outcome, they conclude the process is random.
It is not random, it is precise and following all the laws of nature.
If we could precisely measure each and every force and agent that was involved in the shuffling of the deck, which would include the cards, the atmosphere, gravity, etc. and precisely every movement of the person shuffling the cards, and the cards themselves we could with certainty predict the order of the cards being shuffled. There is no magic here, just simple physical interactions. There is no biological life in the cards, and none in the shuffle. There is only the nature of a human being involved in the process...which makes it unpredictable as to the outcome as well as the inability to measure each and every physical motion precisely.
Why people believe that an infinite bunch of monkeys typing infinitely will eventually produce Shakespeare's plays exactly, yet those same people think that a shuffling of a deck of cards produces a random result is daft.
There is no magic here. We could take a machine that would produce the exact same movements of shuffling every single time...exactly the same. Atmosphere exactly the same. External forces exactly the same. Cards exactly the same and starting from exactly the same sequence. Everything programmed via a computer.
So what happens? We have human behavior involved the process, which makes it beyond our ability to calculate all the possible factors, thus we claim "Eureka" it has to be RANDOM!
It is the human element that generates the most "random" events, because the belief dominates the scientific world that the mind is itself a random generator. All of this thinking of course conveniently stands in denial of the fundamental principles and axioms of cause and effect.
This concept of random happenings is the bedrock of evolutionary theory. It is a poor excuse for ignorance, but that is the cop out of the evolutionists perpetually. "We don't see a pattern, we can't figure out why, so it must be random."
"Well, science can't measure that and all the possible influences, so we have to insert RANDOM into the equation to make our formula work."
Really has nothing to do with science in a pure form, it has to do with advancement of ignorance, and strangely deciding that ignorance is more "logical" of a foundation to make a guess on than a guess of non random.
See, it is hard to prove intelligence and programming unless there is sufficient data, and easy to stand on a platform of limited evidence and knowledge with the position of "you have to prove random wrong first"
The modern scientific mind is so dominated by ego, so driven to pretend that it has the answers that it accepts a foundation of ignorance to build on. The need to speculate as to the "whys" without the ability to really know why is of course human nature.
Sadly science has no scientific understanding as to why this our human nature, or what human nature and nature of the mind actually are, that they have to build their house with the straw of ignorance.
Deep down they know that anything that is a product of the mind, i.e. scientific theory that rests on an unprovable assumption of random is bogus, but I suppose human nature being what it is prevents them from any real intellectual honesty in this area.
Throw in the psychologically of the walking wounded with their issues with their own experience of religion, and you have the perfect situation to produce a god of randomness that they worship...
First, there is absolutely nothing at all random about the shuffling of cards.
It is 100% physics, 100% purely physical. There are no violations of physical law during the shuffling of the cards, nothing fundamentally random about it.
Simply because someone lacks the tools to accurately and precisely know all the details of the shuffle which influence the outcome, they conclude the process is random.
It is not random, it is precise and following all the laws of nature.
If we could precisely measure each and every force and agent that was involved in the shuffling of the deck, which would include the cards, the atmosphere, gravity, etc. and precisely every movement of the person shuffling the cards, and the cards themselves we could with certainty predict the order of the cards being shuffled. There is no magic here, just simple physical interactions. There is no biological life in the cards, and none in the shuffle. There is only the nature of a human being involved in the process...which makes it unpredictable as to the outcome as well as the inability to measure each and every physical motion precisely.
Why people believe that an infinite bunch of monkeys typing infinitely will eventually produce Shakespeare's plays exactly, yet those same people think that a shuffling of a deck of cards produces a random result is daft.
There is no magic here. We could take a machine that would produce the exact same movements of shuffling every single time...exactly the same. Atmosphere exactly the same. External forces exactly the same. Cards exactly the same and starting from exactly the same sequence. Everything programmed via a computer.
So what happens? We have human behavior involved the process, which makes it beyond our ability to calculate all the possible factors, thus we claim "Eureka" it has to be RANDOM!
It is the human element that generates the most "random" events, because the belief dominates the scientific world that the mind is itself a random generator. All of this thinking of course conveniently stands in denial of the fundamental principles and axioms of cause and effect.
This concept of random happenings is the bedrock of evolutionary theory. It is a poor excuse for ignorance, but that is the cop out of the evolutionists perpetually. "We don't see a pattern, we can't figure out why, so it must be random."
"Well, science can't measure that and all the possible influences, so we have to insert RANDOM into the equation to make our formula work."
Really has nothing to do with science in a pure form, it has to do with advancement of ignorance, and strangely deciding that ignorance is more "logical" of a foundation to make a guess on than a guess of non random.
See, it is hard to prove intelligence and programming unless there is sufficient data, and easy to stand on a platform of limited evidence and knowledge with the position of "you have to prove random wrong first"
The modern scientific mind is so dominated by ego, so driven to pretend that it has the answers that it accepts a foundation of ignorance to build on. The need to speculate as to the "whys" without the ability to really know why is of course human nature.
Sadly science has no scientific understanding as to why this our human nature, or what human nature and nature of the mind actually are, that they have to build their house with the straw of ignorance.
Deep down they know that anything that is a product of the mind, i.e. scientific theory that rests on an unprovable assumption of random is bogus, but I suppose human nature being what it is prevents them from any real intellectual honesty in this area.
Throw in the psychologically of the walking wounded with their issues with their own experience of religion, and you have the perfect situation to produce a god of randomness that they worship...