How do we put forward an argument that the universe is haphazard, and chaotic?

Question

Which philosophers did that? Is there an argument that there are no accidents? Which philosophers said that?

Answer 1

It is known that the Milky Way is traversing its space at a speed of six hundred km per second, measured relative to other galaxies in the cluster. But this motion is not as smooth as that of a Frisbee released from the hands of an expert player, but more like an apple pie thrown by a clown. Then there is disorder in the motions of planets: Mars, for instance, wobbles, Venus is turned over its axis, Uranus is rotating round the Sun in opposite direction and the orbit of Pluto is elliptical which has also gone askew at an angle to the normal plane of planetary disc. The Earth would have been wobbly too if it were not for the Moon to act as a stabilising influence – call someone loose, lunatic next time. Then no one can explain how the outer planets in the solar system were formed, and put into their places.

And if we look into the heart of an atom, we cannot understand the laws of quantum mechanics as well as we do laws of Newtonian mechanics. It is, for instance impossible to predict the availability of an electron at a given time, at a particular location; however, we are certain that electrons are there, as a cloud round nucleus. This uncertainty is then the principle at the heart of each atom.

And then the very matter that constitutes your and mine physics is unstable. Put plenty of it at one place and it starts to heat up, as it is in the form of our own earth beneath our feet. And if too of matter is put together, it give way completely, it explodes into nuclear fusion, as it is in the stars and the Sun. And the most tantalisingly is the fact that nothing can ever travel faster than the speed of light, for if something would it would burn up into light energy, and scatter. This is then for sure that you or me cannot be physically bigger than a certain limit in the universe that itself is mind bogglingly gigantic and bewilderingly huge; and that we cannot travel well enough where we desperately need to.


There is chaos and disorder can be visible everywhere in our personal and social lives. Then there are issues of global peace and order, equality, poverty, disease, wars, social setups, international affairs, climatic change, the air, the seas, the forests, land and the rest. We can see that there is nothing in the world according to the hard and bound rules that our rational mind would like to see around for its consolation and peace.

Then we have our own mind that is the greatest mystery of all, a labyrinth deep. We cannot predict or anticipate with any good degree of certainty what humankind would end up doing, or getting itself into next. We do not know where we have come from and what our ultimate future is? And what catastrophes and disaster await us in the future?

I could go on counting the instance of chaos, disorder and unpredictability that clearly classify the universe as an unfriendly place for mankind. It is as if mankind has been dropped right from the skies into this world as aliens in true sense of meanings. We search form familiarity and explanations about the world we are in, but we find none, or very little, that would give us an answer, all our efforts bring only more question in return. If, for instance, we would know what is in our galaxies then we would not know what is beyond, and if we would knew even that somehow, we would not know, what we are doing here in all this?

Then if there is any hope, in form of any ultimately understandable order in the universe then it must be in our own heart and mind; the innate order that we seek in the world around us. And more see find more we know and more we get closer to our destination, whatever that may be. It is the human eye that can see harmonies and similarity, along side disharmonies and differences. And in my view the very fact about our own nature suggest the most important things that we need to have firmly in our mind, that life has a purpose, and that is to find, accept and maintain order in disorder and harmony in disharmony.

Life thus is not to be questioned irreverently, but first of all accept in awe and with absolute respect. It is awesome; it is all we have; and it is all we need to know. For these purposes human mind above all needs to have a heart of faith to be able to seek and find anything at all.

But the scientific revolutions and advancements of past few centuries have caused terrible damage to the mind. At one place science has robed human mind of its fantasies, and religion conceptions of supreme realities in existence just by attempting to explain that there is nothing but bleakness of impassable space all around us; and that there are no heaven above as there is no hell below. And stars on the firmament are but distant suns that we cannot reach by all our physical means even if we try for centuries to come.

And the second influence of science upon normal life has been even more frightening and effective in reducing the quality of the contents of the mind. It has caused the physical space available to people on the Earth shrink to the size of a village, a global village. The space in the human mind has been destroyed by an over reliance upon scientifically acquired knowledge. And unless we learn to create new spaces in our mind, that I would like to call Mind Space, through the power of our renewed beliefs, re kindled imagination and good fantastic sense, we soon will find it too hard to live on the Earth that is getting ever so more congested and crowded by the day.

Answer 2

The universe is chaotic only in its complexity. As any physicist can tell you there is an underlying order to it. Accidents happen because we can't know all the ramifications of our acts.

Let me give an example:
A dope addict holds up a small store in downtown Omaha. The owner responds with gunfire and the robber returns fire. A kid fleeing from the gunfire darts across the street. A woman driving down the street, swerves to avoid the kid and rams into a car in the adjacent lane. A gasoline truck slams into the back of them, the trailer jackknifes, busting the fuel line from the tanks and 4000 gals of gasoline is spilling out onto the ground. All because a dope addict was trying to get money for a fix of a product grown in Afghanistan. So a farmer in Afghanistan is causing a serious situation in the middle of the United States.
Unforeseen consequences!

Answer 3

what's erroneous with only pointing out which you don't be responsive to? Many theists only fill interior the gaps with "my particular god did it". back interior the midsection an prolonged time while lightning would strike theists would see it as a punishment of their particular god. we are able to now completely clarify lightning and what motives it to strike and we snort as this midsection age way of questioning. it relatively is in spite of if what theists very usually nonetheless do; they can't clarify something and consequently they declare that it would have been their particular god who did it. An atheist does no longer have self belief interior the existence of any god, through fact there is not any evidence for the existence of any god. Atheism does no longer say something approximately our origins. what's erroneous with admitting which you don't be responsive to something? Why be so ashamed of this which you're feeling the could clarify it making use of the god-of-the-gaps concept?

Answer 4

I think it was Stephen Hawking, a renown astronomer, who said once that the Universe has a level of entropy, that is, things will always take the worse and chaotic way.

Answer 5

Produce evidence to support your theory, how else do you pursue an argument?

Answer 6

Tell everyone to watch the news- have you ever seen such chaos anywhere else.

Answer 7

you can't put forward this argument effectively because it's so obviously a load of &*^%

Answer 8

you can't. you need proof first which is the reason none of us know the truth yet.