Neither an Act of God, Nor a Roll of the Dice

The universe and everything inside it is neither intelligently designed nor arbitrarily random. Reality is self-organized and not chaotic. It has a coherent, integrated, and internally-designed pattern which is mostly easy to spot and understand.

Both inorganic and living matter order themselves based upon universal, scientific, physical, chemical, biological, and intellectual laws. Thus the universe and everything inside it tends toward organized, stylish beauty, and not towards random, chaotic ugliness. Existence tends to powerfully order and organize itself in clear, clean, strong, symetrical, beautiful systems, laws, and patterns as it evolves, grows, and becomes complex. And there’s nothing anything or anybody can do to stop it. Such is our natural world.

For those who don’t understand the authority, power, dominance, and magnificence of science and Natural Law, the universe may seem to be invented and designed by something or someone outside of it. But there’s no such thing. And if you exist and think with reasonable competence and success, you will probably realize that our sacred cosmos ineffably designed itself. And not into some chaotic, random, arbitrary, unintegrated, incoherent, self-contradictory, self-warring mess.

The truth certainly seems to be that the universe marvelously and gorgeously created, developed, ordered, organized, and arranged itself according to its own omnipotent, wonderful, internal principles. This wasn’t accomplished by some hyperreal, supernatural, magical, mystical force or entity.