'Random'

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Does "randomness" occur?

  • Yes, things can be truely random.

    Votes: 11 34.4%
  • No, everything can be predicted.

    Votes: 6 18.8%
  • Lets see if this brick randomly breaks your face.

    Votes: 15 46.9%

  • Total voters
    32
Originally posted by Timmotheus
The egg. Duh?
That question never states what kind of egg. It's a stupid question. The Dinosaur egg came before the chicken, no questions asked.
But the chicken created the egg!! and the egg created the chicken!

And if you have half a brain you can determine its a chicken egg.
 
Originally posted by Attila_Da_Hun
But the chicken created the egg!! and the egg created the chicken!

And if you have half a brain you can determine its a chicken egg.
Right. With a whole brain you can determine that the nature of the egg isn't stated. Apparently, since you have half a brain, you should explain this completely foreign idea of completely linear thought to me. Abstract thought requires an entire brain, apparently.
You set yourself up for that one. No offense intended.
 
Originally posted by Timmotheus
Right. With a whole brain you can determine that the nature of the egg isn't stated. Apparently, since you have half a brain, you should explain this completely foreign idea of completely linear thought to me. Abstract thought requires an entire brain, apparently.
You set yourself up for that one. No offense intended.

Now I kind of understand. a bird dino could lay an egg and through random chance, crossing over of chromosomes and other factors it hatches the first of common chickens.
 
Originally posted by Timmotheus
Right. With a whole brain you can determine that the nature of the egg isn't stated. Apparently, since you have half a brain, you should explain this completely foreign idea of completely linear thought to me. Abstract thought requires an entire brain, apparently.
You set yourself up for that one. No offense intended.
Nevermind. You missing the whole point of what i said.
To make you happy...

What came first?
The chicken or a chicken egg?
 
Originally posted by the_cobbinator
Now I kind of understand. a bird dino could lay an egg and through random chance, crossing over of chromosomes and other factors it hatches the first of common chickens.
Not at all. It's word play, nothing more. But yes, you are right; if the fact that the entire statement is morocnic is ignored, the definition of "chicken' comes in to question. When does a chicken evolve into a chicken? If the current species of common chicken is the only true chicken, then the egg most certainly came first. However, if the ancestors of a chicken are considered chickens back to the earliest protozoa, then the chicken most certainly came first.
The question, with its most obvious inference, is mroe a question of faith. One who does not believe in evolution will certainly say that the chicken came first, and vice versa.
Moreover, chromosomes crossing over could not cause a large enough change to transform the progeny of an organism into a chicken if the parents were not. A major mutagen, perhaps UV radiation or a mutated virus, would have been the more likely precursor to change.

I really have to get back to my homework.
 
the topic of the future and times yet to come is a confusing one. It is impossible to predict the future with 100% certainty, so in essence everything is random. Sure, we can make plans, but when hass something gone exactly according to plan? But, in spite hat the future is unpredictable and utterly random, we as humans can actually influence what happens (by making up our minds in advance to do something in the future).

Wow, that could very eaasily have been a motivational speech; I scare myself as times :nervous:
 
trust me, had I wanted it to I could've gone on about how you have to do this, or never give up in life, etc.
 
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