One of the strongest objections to any claim of divine or absolute order is the appearance of chaos. Lives collapse without warning. Good people suffer. Opportunities appear unevenly distributed. Disaster strikes without permission. Human beings encounter loss, injustice, accident, confusion, and contradiction, and from this they conclude that life must be random. If reality were truly ordered, they reason, surely it would look more predictable, more balanced, more comprehensible. But this conclusion rests on a serious mistake. It confuses lack of perception with lack of order. It assumes that because the pattern is not visible, no pattern exists. Yet much of what appears chaotic is not the absence of structure, but the presence of structure too large, layered, or hidden to be immediately understood.
The Illusion of Chaos
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