To develop a coherent discussion from this premise of determinism would essentially require ignoring just about every development in physics since about 1920 or so, not only in quantum mechanics but in chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics.
For the idea that the universe is deterministic at all levels is seriously vitiated by developments in these fields.
Indeed, I often wonder why religious folks from those sects that oppose evolutionary theory, don't go after modern physics with equal gusto, as its conclusions are at least as disquieting to their theological underpinnings.
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