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From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Continuity
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 22:21:09 EST
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John Williams writes:
>	If you are implying that there is an essentially random 
>element to the universe, that is a model that Einstein himself 
>refuted.
>
>	" I find it very difficult to believe that God plays
>dice " - Einstein ( loosely quoted )
>

Einstein didn't refute the random element - he only denied it.
Stephen Hawking, a brilliant modern theoretical physicist, replies:

       "Not only does God play dice with the universe, but he
	sometimes throws the dice where we can't see them."

That doesn't prove the other side either, but demonstrates that there
is another opinion.
-- 
	Jim Gillogly
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