Quote Originally Posted by ActualSpamBot View Post
Except the chain of cause and effect you're describing breaks down at the quantum level. It's not a simple as saying that something had to knock down the first domino.
Partially true.

It breaks down at the quantum level because our knowledge of quantum physics is currently exhausted. So essentially, at the quantum level, we've replaced 'X' caused 'Y' with "quantum physics tells us nothing caused 'Y'". The assumption here is that quantum physics at its present state is the irreducible fundamental in nature. It's just way too young of a science to make any such claim. You'd think we'd have learned our lesson about throwing around absolutes, especially considering the very same branch of science is just getting over the Newtonian "Clockwork" paradigm that was thought to be the absolute in nature.