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Originally Posted by boxcar
A "degree" of randomness? Really? You mean there is some aim, direction, rule, method, purpose or intentionality to the universe?
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No, I do not mean that at all.
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Originally Posted by boxcar
If there's only a "degree of randomness", then what is the other degree that makes up the whole?
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The mathematical term is "degree of freedom." I should have used that instead of "degree of randomness" but at the time I could not remember the mathematical term. I've since had the time to look it up.
Put it this way. Do you look exactly like either of your parents. Of course not. Are you an average between your parents, e.g., is the length of your nose the average between the length of your parents noses? Possibly, but probably not. There are thousands, possibly millions, of genes that make up your personal genome. There could be billions of possible combinations. Which combination comes about is random but it's not a matter of chance alone.
