In creation, there is no randomness, a fact that is the basis for all physical sciences. If we look up at the stars and see the planets, we see a further example of great orderliness. This has been happening for about 2 million years, the length of time humans have inhabited the planet. The arc of life is consistent and stable. The growth pattern of humans has remained essentially the same too: We are born very young, and grow through adolescence, puberty, adulthood, maturity, and old age, at which point we die.
The gestation and birth of a child are also examples of remarkable orderliness: It still takes egg and sperm to produce an ovum, and nine months for a child to fully develop and to be born. That no two sets of eyes are alike only shows the remarkable creativity and energy that are contained within this DNA molecule. When we look at the very basics of life-the world of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the molecular world, and the developing child-we see an awesome sequence unfolding.ĭNA is of such profound orderliness that it has been the template for producing literally billions upon billions of human beings with the same universal characteristics, two eyes, ten fingers, ten toes, et cetera. Therefore, we can cancel the first possibility to our original question: There is, at the very least, some orderliness. Orderliness can be seen in every aspect of existence, from the subatomic world to the world of stars and galaxies. We are continually witnesses to this process of change: Day turns into night, and night turns into day winter is followed by spring, and summer is followed by fall and apples grow on apple trees, and figs grow on fig trees, and they never, ever, get confused. On the contrary, the universe not only maintains form and structure, it also changes in precise and orderly ways. Moreover, if the universe were ruled by unpredictable events, there would be no sustainable structure to it. In fact, we know this premise to be untrue, since the natural sciences, such as physics, mathematics biology, chemistry, and astronomy are all based on the orderliness, even predictability, of natural law.
Such a state of affairs would mean that the universe is ruled by chance events, and there are no orderly laws governing the universe. Randomness is a state in which there is no order or larger meaning. There are three possible answers to this question: the universe is ruled by randomness and chaos the universe is infinitely orderly or both randomness and orderliness exist.