Immanuel Kant . Still, the determinism of the laws of physics has raised problems for human behavior. Materialists like Hobbes have simply accepted determinism, while dualists such as Descartes have sought to avoid it, but in its place

nonlocal hidden-variable determinism, many-worlds determinism, and so on. While it is legitimate, even unavoidable, to prefer one of these on theological grounds, we should stress that others are available and their theological use in each case

universe of Laplace (see Determinism, indeterminism and their implications ) , but in one in which it is not even theoretically possible to predict in minute detail what will happen next. In order to proceed with our investigation of

and explanation - 1.17 Determinism, indeterminism and their implications - 1.18 Developing theology in the light of science - 1.18.1 The interdependence of different aspects of a model - 1.19 Three attributes of models of God,

which seems to imply determinism . Therefore, it is important in theological discussions to distinguish between reductive and nonreductive versions of physicalism. To see the difference, consider a recent finding by V.S. Ramachandran at

assumes causal determinism : the present state determines the future state completely with no room for intrinsic chance (as in quantum physics ). Thus it is philosophically classical regarding determinism / mechanism, but relativistic

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not indicate ontological indeterminism; indeed the ubiquitous role of the Gaussian distribution (the ‘bell curve’) in classical science underscores this fact. As Murphy depicts it, the combination of determinism in physics, epistemic