|
Here's a rather important question: what exactly *is* coincidence?
Is it
a) something that happens by chance, i.e. pure luck.
b) something that happens which wasn't planned by God/caused by (deterministic) natural laws.
c) something completely different.
If the current trends in physics are to be believed, we might eventually find that elusive "theory of everything", which will enable us to understand or even predict everything that happens around us. That does *not* mean that those predictions will be deterministic; we might find that the theory has a large (truly) random element in it.
If this theory is ever found, it might show that everything has a "reason", in the sense that it is caused by something else. However, that does NOT mean there is some plan behind. In fact, even if the theory is totally deterministic (non-random), if the equations are complex enough, one might still say that coincidence *seems* to exist because we cannot predict anything anyway.
Anyone?
|