Products of Chance

[Ben Davis]

I've heard atheists say,

“I believe that the universe was created out of nothing by chance.”

But chance can’t create anything. It’s a word that we use to describe or talk about probabilities. If I flip a coin the chances of it landing heads up if flipped (assuming it doesn’t land on its side) is 50%. But if it does land heads up, chance didn't "cause" it to flip, I did. "Chance" doesn't stand in casual relation to things.

“Chance” as the cause of the universe seems silly.

What do you guys think?

I think you've created a strawman that I've heard a hundred times before. No-one with any knowledge of the beginnings of our universe states its origin in the way you have, atheist or otherwise (and remember, there are religious physicists/astrophysicists/cosmologists/mathematicians/year 9 students).