Implications of Quantum Physics

[Michael]

From another thread.

…when light, which consists of both a wave *and *a stream of particles - photons - strikes a mirror, it is an empirically verified fact that 95% of the photons will be reflected off the mirror, but 5% will pass through the mirror. The amazing thing is that it is *impossible *to predict which 5% of the photons will be the ones that pass through the mirror. They are all identical, and there is nothing in their physical make-up that determines which of them will be the ones that pass through the mirror - and yet it is certain that 5% of them will. Hence matter is stable, and behaves predictably, at the atomic level, but fundamentally unpredictable at the sub-atomic level.

Fundamentally unpredictable to humans.

What you’re saying is that sub-atomic particles behave in a way that doesn’t appear to be governed by their physical make-up, or any known law.

What I don’t get is how that proves randomness.

If there’s a Supreme Intelligence above the laws of physics (above time and space), wouldn’t the presumption be that some things are directly determined by His will alone (and not by any law of Physics)?

How does the inability of a human observer to predict the precise sub-atomic particles that will constitute the 5% that pass through the mirror do more than confirm that presumption?

If it’s God’s will for particle x, y, and z to pass through the mirror in one instance, and God’s will for particles a, b, and c to pass through in another instance, and a human observer is unable to predict this, how does that prove that the selection of x, y, or z (or a, b, or c) is random (in the sense of being undetermined by God’s will, uncaused by Him, or unforeknown by Him)?