Does God Play Dice with the Universe?

Albert Einstein was right, when he famously denied that the universe is based in chance.  He did so, not as a religious statement, but as a denial of a central tenet of quantum physics (QM), the uncertainty principle.  The uncertainty principle says that certain things happen inside the atom that are inherently unpredictable, even by nature itself, so to speak.  If so, then by extension, everything is ultimately determined at random.

Einstein’s alternative theory was that the universe is deterministic.  This idea is as mistaken as the uncertainty principle.  Einstein averred that the universe, once it was set in motion, would play out like a complex row of dominoes.  According to determinism, the future is already decided, and cannot be altered.

Both of these concepts, chance and determinism, are incorrect.  The universe is neither inherently unpredictable, not are its future events inalterable.  There is a third element that neither Einstein nor Heisenberg (and others) seem to have considered—the agency of sovereign individuality.

Life, consciousness and free will are fundamentals upon which all of physical reality is based.  Even if somehow the universe could exist without them, as one person pointed out, what would it matter?  If reality had no life, no conscious witness, then its existence or nonexistence would make no difference.  Likewise, if we had no free will, we would be helpless observers of our own lives, but not participants.  We would be going through the motions, acting out a script that nobody wrote.

Free will is forbidden by the current paradigm in physics.  The physics is correct, the paradigm is wrong.

If we can freely choose between good and evil, then there must actually be good and evil.  They are not figments of our imagination.

These are not games.  Your choices have eternal consequence.  Seek wisdom from the source of all wisdom.  I chose to seek it in Christian faith, and it lifted me from the depth to the heights.  You could do worse.