Divine Providence and Randomness in Nature - Rob Koons

Is divine providence compatible with randomness in nature? Rob Koons explains.

Our project, "Abrahamic Reflections on Science and Religion" has gathered an impressive array of scholars--scientists and philosophers worldwide-- from each of the Abrahamic faiths to address the problem of randomness and providence. 36 scholars from over 15 countries were involved in the 3 year project. We held meetings in Macedonia, Morocco, Jordan and the United States.

The work from our conference will be published in two books coming out later this year.

Robert Koons has been working on issues concerning the interaction between probability, causation, and belief since graduate school. This was a major theme in both of his early books, Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality and Realism Regained. He's also had a longtime interest in philosophical theology, developing an account of divine agency and providence (based on some ideas from the English theologian Austin Farrer) in a 2002 article in Philosophia Christi entitled “Dual Agency.”

We are grateful for the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation and the Fetzer Institute.

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the problem i see here is the assumption that nature is fundamentally probabilistic rather than specific and causal.
the field of probability is a construct for understanding nature where there are hidden variables. Its just a method of predicting the specific causality of nature.