[tacticalogic]

...[A] person cannot say something is random in a system when he doesn't know what the system "is."

Do you believe someone can calculate the probability of an event occurring without knowing what all the possible variables are?

[MHGinTN]

Certainly, but the ‘outcome’ will of necessity discard all outcomes which do not fit within the pre-conceived parameters for the calculations. Maxwell’s Equations are a prime example ... Einstein’s inclusion of ‘Lambda’ in his relativity calculations is sort of another, since he had no experimental data from which to conclude that a lambda was needed so he included it in order to factor out ‘outcomes’/solutions which he believed, given his data sets —limited as they were— were absurd solutions.