By that logic nothing is ever truly random. Just define the states of all atoms in the universe and you have full determinism. But the fact of the matter is, yo

By that logic nothing is ever truly random. Just define the states of all atoms in the universe and you have full determinism. But the fact of the matter is, you can’t establish a causal link with such flimsy evidence unless your theory also _predicts the future_. And by that I mean predicts in the strong sense: you make a prediction and record it with a third party, then see if it held. Not the kind of “predictions” we often see in climate science where a hundred different models are retroactively matched to what actually happened and a handful happen to kinda sorta match the data, if you massage it well enough.