Value of coincidences.

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Everything that happens is "a coincidence" if viewed a certain way. People irrationally apply extra significance to events, it seems to be a natural human trait.

And obviously there's confirmation bias; no one comments on the billions of things happening all the time that they don't consider a coincidence.

The word for that is Apophenia. 

[source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia]

Nice! Thank you I wasn't aware of that term.

Regarding "everything happens for a reason", that's an extremely redundant and in fact overly simplistic explanation. Things happen for a lot of reasons, such as the state of things just before them and the rules governing the system. Of course, they mean "reason" as in some intelligent agent giving us messages. So it's back to applefeeder. I mean apophenia.