Purpose VS Coincidence

Do you believe in love in first sight? Well, I'm still being skeptical about it. However, let's look at a bigger perspective. This is one the movies that got stuck in my head for some time. 

to get you thinking along the right lines
for your term paper.

  
It's the subject of randomness
versus determinism in the universe.

  
Who's jumping in? Jessica?

  
Determinism says
that occurrences in nature

  
are causally decided by preceding events
or natural laws,

  
that everything leading up to this point
has happened for a reason.

  
That's right. That's what determinism says.

  
Spencer? Tell me something about the sun.

  
It's hot.

  
(STUDENTS LAUGHING)

  
Elaborate.

  
Temperature's about 10,000 degrees
Fahrenheit on the surface,

  
- 27 million degrees at the core.
- Good.

  
Stacey?

  
(STUDENTS LAUGHING)

  
A word or two about the composition.

  
Mostly hydrogen.

  
Also helium with some carbon
and nitrogen thrown in there.

  
Excellent. Now, I want you to think
about the perfect set of circumstances

  
that put this celestial ball of fire

  
at just the correct distance

  
from our little blue planet for life to evolve,

  
making it possible for you
to be sitting here in this riveting lecture.

  
(STUDENTS LAUGHING)

  
But that's a nice thought, right?

  
Everything has a purpose, an order to it,
is determined.

  
But then there's the other side
of the argument,

  
the theory of randomness,
which says it's all simply coincidence.

  
The very fact we exist is nothing
but the result of a complex

  
yet inevitable string of chemical accidents

  
and biological mutations.

  
There is no grand meaning.

  
There's no purpose.

  
STACEY: What about you,
Professor Koestler?

  
- What?
- Well, what do you believe?

  

I think shit just happens.
~Knowing, 2009





I just think it'd be an interesting topic to share. Purpose or plain coincidence? Determinism or randomness?