Emerging Questions (Leaving Cert Religious Education): Flashcards

Outcomes that cannot be predicted with certainty in advance

True: genuinely unpredictable; Practical: appears random due to limited knowledge

Individual nucleus decay timing is genuinely unpredictable

Mathematical framework for quantifying uncertainty (0 to 1)

Probability as long-run frequency patterns over many trials

Probability as rational degrees of belief from evidence

Deterministic systems with sensitive dependence on initial conditions

With many trials, averages converge to expected probabilities

Some aspects of nature are genuinely random, not just unknown

Certain quantity pairs can't both be measured precisely simultaneously

Sensitive dependence, prediction horizons, underlying order

New properties at higher levels, not predictable from parts

Systems develop structure via local interactions, not design

Primary: God sustains laws; Secondary: creatures act naturally

Confuses scientific term with philosophical purpose questions