Cagle Grams: Taking a chance

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all” (Ecclesiastes 9:11 KJV). Chance is defined as “something that happens unpredictably without discernible human intention or observable cause; the assumed impersonal purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings.” But does anything actually happen by chance? Does anything happen that is not the consequence of a choice that is not the effect of a cause? Does anything happen that does not have either a spiritual and unobservable cause or