#coincide

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design. ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#chance #coincidenc-e #fine-tuning #id #intelligent-design

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#chance #coincidence #consciousness #darwinism #evolution

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle. ↗

— Michael Denton

#biology #chance #chemical-evolution #coincidence #id

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#jealousy #pessimism #jealousy

Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous. ↗

— Laura Pedersen

#fate #god #religion #religion

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else. ↗

— John Green

#chance #chaos #coincidence #chance

Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#simile

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years. ↗

— Adam Ant

#guitar #i #may #minute #pen

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys. ↗

— Emma Bull

#levers #see #use #word

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#biggest #books #closest #coincidence #countries