In a secular world view, a scientific world view, it's obvious that's not what's going on. Most of what happens is happens in a probablistic nature that you have very little control over. And to me, that's one of the most powerful tools of critical thinking - understanding the role of probabilities. i assign to my chapman university scepticism one o one course students thea leonard maladno's book, the drunkard's walk. It's about the role of chance and probabilities. Nd. I do think that if we taught students, not just college students, i think this should be done in high school.
In this AMA Dr. Michael Shermer answers your questions about evolution and creationism, intelligent design theory, the hard problem of consciousness, the origins of morality, how science deals with anomalies, to what extent humans are naturally rational or irrational / skeptical or gullible, and why there is something rather than nothing.