I agree Barbarian. God can do whatever he wants, which is why I agreed with JamesBond that if God wanted to do it that way, he could. I can think of several ways it could happen But in my time as a YEC, and my dealings with YECS, I think have taught me, giving them a means by which God actually sets the outcome is important. Here is what they think about randomness--and I think it makes their God impotent, but it is what they think:
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Sproul also warns that 'if chance exists in any size, shape or form, God cannot exist. The two are mutually exclusive. If chance existed, it would destroy God's sovereignty. If God is not sovereign, he is not God. If he is not God, he simply is not. If chance is, God is not. If God is, chance is not.' Hank Hanegraaff, The Face that Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution, (Nashville: Word Publishing co., 1998), p. 61
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If chance exists in its frailest possible form, God is finished. Nay, he could not be finished because that would assume he once was. To finish something implies that it at best was once active or existing. If chance exists in any size, shape or form, God cannot exist. The two re mutually exclusive."
"If chance existed, it would destroy God's sovereignty. If God is not sovereign, he is not God. If he is not God, he simply is not." R. C. Sproul, Not a Chance, (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1994), p. 3
I look at that 'cave' system and think that if human mathematicians can figure a way to control chance, and turn it into determinism, Are YECs saying that humans are better and more powerful than God? I would think that is a logical conclusion of their position.
YECs have rarely heard of Sierpinski's gasket, which combines random choices with a deterministic output. Here are the rules of this object
Here is a bit more explanation, or an alternative explanation:
Again, no matter what the path the moving dot takes, no matter how it changes its starting point, this object will always, deterministically arise from the randomness governed by the rules in the first picture. Randomness and determinism together in one object. Statement's like Sproul bother me, as they do you Barbarian, They make God subservient to nature.