The Ownership of Science

[The Architect Of Fate]

It almost seems as if there are these four basic categories keep popping up to "explain" the apparent contingency of the physical universe: chance, necessity, providence, and choice. Depending on one's faith, or lack thereof, people are disposed to feel emotionally and intellectually satisfied with some categories more than others. At the same time though, some categories seem to blur together. Is there really that much difference between them? If you can model chance outcomes statistically doesn't that bleed into necessity when there is a predictable and graphable distribution? Is there really much difference between necessity, that which must happen, and providence, the idea that some things are set-up to happen. Isn't that perhaps just a differnent way of talking about the same thing...between the "how" and "why" of things.

The answer to this is no