Originally posted by Brother EdwinI don't think it's that simple. Enzyme kinetics, for example, depends upon substrates hitting the enzyme in the correct orientation and having the correct energy. Obviously for any given substrate molecule there is only a fractal possibility that the substrate will fulfil those constraints.
Everything is a atom. Therefore everything is a resulrt of a previous reaction, this nothing is random and everything in theory ciould be predicted.
Now, if we had perfect knowledge about all the conditions, we could probably predict everything perfectly, I'd need to think about it more, but more or less I agree. However, we never have perfect knowledge, but probability and statistical theory allow us to make good predictions of what will happen.