On 02-09-98 Math Guy wrote to Day Brown... 
 MG>...  I used an Atari, which also  
 MG> ran on a 6502.  We had a memory location we could grab for  
 MG> random numbers.  They weren't really random of course - but  
 MG> close enough.  There was a very fast clock somewhere in the  
 MG> computer which would determine the value of that memory  
 MG> location.  It was much faster than any program we would  
 MG> run, so it was close enough to random for our purposes. 
"Random for our purposes" is rather apt to the original question, 
which in essence, doubts that the Universe *must* be part of some 
plan of [a presumed] God inasmuch as randomness is so easy to set 
up as an ideal, and so hard to set up as a reality.  It has been 
a long time, but the Apple random number may have been just some 
part of the OS, not fixed on the chip. 
 
In any case, if you take a random number of an indefinite, and 
random number of integers, you'll find some order in it at some 
point.  Just as in fractle math, it seems like order is always 
present to some degree in any chaotic set. Yin Yang? And, if it 
is always true for all chaotic sets, then the Universe seems to 
be an inevitable, and natural evolution.  However, where I take 
issue with atheism, is that this concept of the Universe still 
is not sufficient without some force [AKA GOD] which maintains it 
as a system in three dimensions with a system made up of rather a 
few more than three. 
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