Many questions have been thrown at the concept of chance. It has been thought to play various roles, some which contradict each other or even incompatible with others. One look in a dictionary and it is straightforward to see that chance is characterized both positively, as luck or fortune and negatively, as a risk or hazard. Chance events have been understood academically as those whose causes are unknown; yet also objectively as a separate ontological type, sometimes identified as pure chance events. Chance sheds light to individual unpredictability and disorder; but simultaneously produces a collective predictability and order – stable long-run statistics, and in a boundary, collective behavior subject to defined mathematical theorems.
What responsibility did chance events have in the origin of human beings and in the origin of the universe? Some of the most controversial debates between the church and the scientific world have been ignited by attempting to answer this question. For some people, the idea that random processes occur at all is repulsive. For others, such thought does not appear intimidating at all. Much of the debate between pro-chance and anti-chance advocates is due to misunderstanding about the meaning of the word “chance”. However, much of the debate is also traceable to profoundly conflicting inclinations of human minds. This is the debate of whether all events can be explained or whether some events randomly happen by chance. This was the central question to one of the most intriguing ongoing debates of the twentieth century which took place between two of the world’s most distinguished physicists, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. Bohr was certain, due to ground-breaking discove ...