Do you believe in coincidences?

[Scurrybt]

I don’t

[Phirestar]

I think that coincidences are a property of the universe which exists to convey information about how and why things came to exist the way they do. They are like hints - little tidbits of knowledge that can be utilized to interpret and understand anything and everything.

What we refer to now as “scientific discovery” was once interpreted as a coincidence. Why does the sun, light, always appear and disappear in the same places in the sky? Why does it always become very hot and dry, then very cold and wet? Why do all these creatures from different parts of the world look and act so much the same? Why do all members of a species share just one of two, distinct appearances?

That’s all that a coincidence is: a sequence of events that, when observed critically, seem to suggest something deeper that what is seen on the surface. And were they to not exist, it’d be a far more difficult task to figure out our surroundings. We wouldn’t have clocks and calendars if the sun and seasons could happen whenever and wherever they please. We wouldn’t have a theory of evolution or a means to identify biological sexes if every organism could look and act in any manner it so desired.

And just like how the people that came long before us didn’t comprehend the meaning of these discoveries, I firmly believe that there exists coincidences in the universe that explain things we don’t fully understand either. I’m not someone who looks at the world and says, “There’s no deeper meaning behind that. It’s that way because it just chooses to be so.”