Re: How can randomness possibly exist?
The OP tacitly assumes that ALL real knowledge is governed in accepting the determinacy of science (I don't know much about quantum stuff). The gaps or disconnects, the insuffiencies of science in certain questions clears the way for an indeterminate answer to these questions. There may be a value to Godel's incompleteness theorem ... the paradoxes where either zero or two mutually exclusive answers present themselves may represent places of indeterminacy and maybe of pure chance.
What you said about people being trained to ignore certain disconnects is very interesting. What if instead we were to focus on them, what would the effect be on popular conceptions of truth and knowledge?
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