God and Dice

[Cardinal Richelieu]

It appears to us that the discussion about God and dice is missing an 
essential point. If one posits an omnipotent Being (for what else can God 
be?)then the Being is omniscient. If the Being is omniscient, then there is 
no throw of dice the outcome of which is unknown to the Being. There simply 
is neither chance nor chaos to the Being. The law of probability has 
parameters (a word adapted/pirated from the realm of its creation for uses 
inapropriate but convenient for media sound bites and attempts to sound 
erudite and scholarly). In God, there is no uncertainty. There is no such 
thing as dice throwing in the only meaning which finite minds comprehend.
Alas, how the heathen doth rage.

Yours in His Name,
Armand Jean du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

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