[tortoise]

In my opinion, the concept of randomness it one of the most misused and/or misunderstood "words" expressed on these threads...

+1

Just about any term related to information theory is routinely misused. See also "information", "algorithm", and "complexity" for other recurring examples of misuse. Algorithmic information theory is deeply counter-intuitive and 90% of pro-ID arguments exploit this fact, apparently to great effect.

[Fester Chugabrew]

See also: "natural" and "supernatural"

[ThomasNast]

Algorithmic information theory is deeply counter-intuitive and 90% of pro-ID arguments exploit this fact, apparently to great effect.

Personally, I use random (a function in Excel) to get me a value between 0 and 1. Using a "seed" gets me other values that I need.

My big argument that random events do not produce music still stands

As pointed out before, I prgram the random events. If I chose to downpage, select a ticket, downpage again, select a ticket, that is not really reandom

[darbymcgill]

Just about any term related to information theory is routinely misused.

Agreed, I would have to say "theory" is the favorite..

Algorithmic information theory is deeply counter-intuitive and 90% of pro-ID arguments exploit this fact, apparently to great effect.

Assuming evolution without regard to the origin of life and assuming the universe was not created also seem to be counter intuitive and are used quite affectively by some in the pro_EVO crowd.