...chance contradicts the ways we ordinarily explain things. You see, an appeal to chance is not an explanation at all. It is an appeal to agnosticism, an agnosticism which violates all the canons of science. So when a scientist looks at any immediate reality, he operates under the assumption that we live in a regular, predictable, and knowable universe, one in which the orderly procession of cause and effect holds. Yet, when the naturalist comes to ultimate or metaphysical questions—questions like the origin of the universe—he abandons the principle of sufficient reason and he appeals to chance.
- Dr. Michael Williams, Covenant Seminary
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