The answer to this question is easy. Of course the universe is fundamentally deterministic. Simply look at the current state of any given system (the in this ca

The answer to this question is easy. Of course the universe is fundamentally deterministic. Simply look at the current state of any given system (the in this case the universe) at any given point in time. If we were to look at all of the elements of "now" could indeterminate randomness (fully or partial) account for the current state of all things in the present moment? Of course not! If we say that universe if non-deterministic, but is instead probabilistic all we are saying is that "we do not understand the system well enough to know the causal relations of all elements within the system, but we can tell you how the system as a whole will work most of the time." Probability is not different from determinism, it is simply a way of measuring outcomes for systems for which we do not or cannot have enough information about in order to understand the causal relations of all of the elements within the system.