| Chance - How much is too much? In a previous paper I pointed out the logical error of atheistic science science that purports to be scientific at the same time it claims there is no reason or evidence for Gods existence. A related issue is how some people will try to say chance is responsible for everything we see in nature. In a way this claim is just another way of repeating what the illogical atheist-scientist says That God isnt needed to explain the universe. But lets look at this closer to expose the error. What will help us here is to remember what the meaning of chance is. If something is planned or intended, it is not left to chance. Something you didnt plan or intend may occur anyway, but the meaning of chance is something unplanned, accidental, unintended, etc. If you make a plan and something goes wrong, we can ask why? But it doesnt make any sense to ask why something happened if there wasnt a plan in the first place. Example: Why did it rain on my birthday cake? Well since no one planned a party, and no one intended to cover the cake, and no one cared if the cake was left outside - why wouldnt it get rained on? Why does it even matter if it did? The example is much worse when it comes to the entire universe. For if everything is by chance (unplanned, unintended, etc.), then there is no meaning (intention, purpose, reason, etc.) to anything. The everything by chance scientist should not try to tell us what the meaning of things are, because he has started out by saying that there is no meaning (purpose, intention, reason, etc.). Certainly there are things that happen by chance. But for chance events to occur, they must have a uniform, predictable environment to occur in. This is the planned or intended environment. To bring the size down some from the universe, lets consider a roll of the dice. We can calculate how many times 6 will be rolled, doubles will come up, etc. But this means the same dice with the same number of dots on them are thrown on a flat surface each time. These are all part of the planned environment. In a game room where everything is by chance, the dice would have different numbers on them each time they were thrown, sometimes they would be thrown on a wall and sometimes on a table, sometimes they would float and sometimes they bounce, sometimes they would not be thrown at all. In fact, sometimes the dice wouldnt even be dice but rocks or ice cubes. In such a world you cant predict anything by chance, can you? You cant say come into this game room and I will tell what will happen next. You cant tell us the reason why things are happening as they are because there is no reason its all just chaos. So chance cant explain everything. And there is a dramatic difference between chance explaining some things and chance explaining everything. If you want to do science, you cant do it in a world of meaningless chaos where chance is everything. You need more order and uniformity than you do chance. And order and uniformity requires a God who intended for things to act as they do on a regular basis, and who is powerful enough to create them with the built-in features to follow this plan. Until you have this, you cant even talk about chance. |