Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

there are several interpretations of quantum mechanics that retain causality, so it's not quite time to throw it out the window. however, even if you say quantum processes are indeterminate, that's still indeterminate as opposed to... which is to say, now the universe has another neat duality: impulsive randomness on a small scale, continuous interconnectedness on a large scale. of course, you can't say that a quantum event happens 'for no reason,' you can only realize that on a certain level we no longer have the capacity to trace the 'cause' with reason.