With Max Born's statistical interpretations of the de broglie-schrodinger wave function, physicists finally renounced the deterministic world view of nature, The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
Physicists realised that the concept of the perfect all knowing mind of god has no support in nature.
Quantum theory - the new theory that replaced classical physics - makes only statistical predictions, But is there a possibility that beyond quantum theory there exists a new deterministic physics, described by some sub quantum physics, and the all knowing mind uses this to determine the world? according to the quantum theory this is not possible, even an all knowing mind must support its knowledge with experience, and once it tries to experimentally determine one physical quantity the rets of the deck of nature gets randomly shuffled again.
The very act of attempting to establish determinism produces indeterminism.
There is no randomness like quantum randomness, like us, God plays dice --- He too knows only the odds.
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