Could chance be designed?

Answer 1

If a someone, for instance, jumps off an airplane flying at a high altitude, there is a certain chance that that person will hit the ground; the gravitational pull of the Earth make it happen. Now lets see if we could do something to engineer, or design, this certain chance and to ensure a happier encounter with ground. As if the one who jumps off the plane has a properly working parachute tired to his back, he is very likely to reach earth safely. The chance in this case was already structured according to the laws of nature, and to the wish of the skydiving person, but the consequences has been altered altogether by changing the way he accepted this chance into his course of action.

In my view all chances are already designed or structured, as in the example above. The chance of jumping off to the ground is fixed and unchangeable in its nature. But one decides to call off the attempt then one will have other course of chance events to encounter, also fixed in their nature.

In strictest sense therefore there are no chances, but only events and their logical consequences that we could infinitely variously encounter along courses that we choose for our life. We may fail to see connections, as we often do, but logical connections are there, only lost to us in a multitude of influencing factors.

All things in physical world consistently follow the same set of rules. Where the uncertain and unpredictable nature of things happening, is not because of chances we encounter but because of the way we encounter them. What happens in our lives is in the end determined by countess factors: the time, the frequency, the location, the surrounding events, our thoughts, actions, the things around us all change the way experience the physical reality of our world.

In this sense there is nothing in the world that could happen by chance, as there surely is the answer to every question. I therefore do not think that within infinitely wild and various possibilities of things happening there is any room for an additional design, as infinite cannot be added upon.

Traversing through life could be analogous to journeying through a big heavily built city, rarely with luxury of a street map in the pocket. We could design our journey through the streets to make sure that we get to in the end where we wanted to be at the beginning, so that we may take all the right turns.

We might realise that we could change our course of journey through the city in number of ways, we could choose various routes at various times of day to avoid traffic congestion for instance, or we could choose the best possible route to ensure safety. But changing instance on the map will not make any our journey ay easier or and better in the outcomes, as the streets of the city and their solid state will stay the same, fixed, and a tenable reference.

Answer 2

I agree with NBM. Words certainly provide mass agreements as to their meanings (and individual meanings as well)...so, with this in mind, I think that to most people "designed" implies a "designer," at least in the relative field of existence this is what we have been conditioned to understand. In the Absolute field, no such designer-being exists. If you by chance spilled a drink on your concrete patio, the liquid would display a design of some sort. Even though it appeared to the naked eye to be random, many physical factors already existing would influence that particular pattern--the viscosity of the liquid, the nature of the concrete, the height and angle at which it was spilled, the wind and humidity conditions, etc. Still, this seemingly "chance" act forms a design specific to all of the conditions already in place at that moment. There was no designer, yet something influenced that particular event and pattern to happen in exactly that moment in that specific way. This is the domain of the Absolute field, which contains all possibilities and their conjunction one with another at any given time--it is an elaborately complex and infinite schema that responds in an instant to existing conditions. Of course, we know that everything is happening at once (in the Absolute field), but in the relative field we perceive separation and distance between events, their causes, and results...thus, time and space. Now we can see that what appears to be "chance" IS "design" of the greatest magnitude.. brought into being through its non-separation from all of existence, with each "part" performing perfectly its role in the whole. I am Sirius

Answer 3

Few things are truly random like dice. But many decisions must be made in conditions of uncertainty. Life is, therefore, more like Backgammon than Chess.
Without the element of (effective) chance, Life would be intolerable; every one of our actions would have a certain, pre-known outcome.
So, a wise Creator (if such there was) would have designed chance into the Human system.

Answer 4

Design, like its synonym "plan," refers to sets of ideas developed to accomplish a desired result.
"Chance" could not be designed.
Many people use "chance" in referring to the accidental, or unpredictable. There's no design to these incidents, although there has to be cause & effect--
I turned a corner, & ran into an old friend, (chance); I reached for the pepper grinder, missed, & knocked over my wine glass (accident); I impulsively decided to have coffee at an outdoor cafe & met someone who turned into my best friend (unpredictable).
None of these things were "designed" or "planned."
(Unless one believes that everything in life is determined by some kind of enitity, like fate or predestination, & that wouldn't fall into the category of any sound philosophy.)

Also, "choice" is NOT "chance."

Answer 5

The chance for whatever we expect was already designed and desired in the past .The chances that knock our door may be desirable or undesirable was fabricated by our own mind .Every thought will be chance one day and it goes on and on.This is the miracle of the free will given to us by mother nature .

Answer 6

Nothing is really chance in the bigger picture. Just because humans can't predict the outcome of something doesn't mean its not part of a deterministic system. That doesn't mean it was designed by a magic man in the sky. But it also rules out "randomness".

Answer 7

For chance to be designed, you would have to accept that someone, or some entity would be able to go into the future and manipulate chance.
As the future has not happened yet the answer is surely no.

Answer 8

nothing is random...there are the precise rules and forces that govern anything happens...there is always a reason why things are the way they are...people who dont understand the rules of the universe call it chance, luck or things like this,
you just have to know the true and real rules of the universe so you can control and design what you want to happen
Its like learning the rules of a game and plan to win

Answer 9

There is no such thing as chance or luck or coincidence.

AND, there is no design or designer. Cause and effect may be exceedingly complex, but causality does exist - just NOT as a 'designer."

Answer 10

Only in one sense: When we work toward a goal, we increase the chance of success. If we overcome all the obstacles to that goal, then chance is not necessary. But if we do not overcome any obstacles and do not work toward our goals, i.e., "waiting for our ship to come in," then we decrease the chance that ship will ever arrive.
Chance is the conflux of circimstances, and all we can do is increase the possibility of the conflux.