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Originally Posted by kerry
On a related point, my Turkish Muslim friends won't buy insurance because it is based on a denial that everything happens for a reason. (What they say is that insurance assumes that things happen by chance as opposed to happening because Allah wills it).
Are they right? Does buying insurance imply denying that things happen for a reason?
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Only if one assumes God can't handle the concept of probability.
Or maybe our concept of probability is based on a myopic view of the universe -- it is so complex that we are incapable of differentiating a complex machine from a random machine. see randomness argument, above.
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