Randomness

I realize this is probably a sickening topic if you know me at all: randomness. We focus on it a lot, and we're all subject to it, whether we are tired or just being our "normal" self. But how much that goes on in the world really is random? Does everything really happen for a reason?

I have a science class that deals with the origin and evolution of the universe and earth. Surprisingly, it's interesting at times. Despite what my prof. says about all of it, I still believe that our Creater left nothing to chance. In The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning makes it a point that the earth was created carefully: "Had the oceans been a few feet deeper, carbon dioxide and oxygen would have absorbed and no vegetable life would exist." Or, if the moon were closer to the earth, the "tides might be so enormous that all continents would be submerged in water." Is it just fortunate that the oceans are exactly the right depth? the moon exaclty the right distance away from the earth?

"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place, what is the man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?" ~Psalm 8:3-4