"... and is everything meant to be or are some things just chance?"

From lecture 6:

"You never know exactly when a radioactive substance will emit a particle. You never know exactly where an electron is situated within an atom. You just know the probabilities of when and where.

In the biological realm the theory of evolution is underpinned by statistics. All these scientific findings have led some scientists to declare that the Universe is without purpose and is going nowhere."

This may be a reasonable assumption given the evidence, but it kind of makes life very dreary and pointless, which I guess is what they're saying, that life is pointless - but that's just depressing! Perhaps if you take these statistical circumstances and have faith in God it represents how God may know but we may never know everything.

I've never heard this one before, it's really cool, and quite a good analogy (I love when a good analogy comes together!)

"Sometimes the wave-particle duality is used as a metaphor for religious antinomies – like the belief that Jesus is both God and Man."

I think this is a cool idea because people see how there are different natures to light, light does different things and these natures can be demonstrated at the same time, and sometimes they are not present at the same time. Either way people see this and because they can show it repeatedly they are happy to believe it. Christ is similar in that there were some things that made him man, he could be tempted, he bled, he slept he ate, he drank, he lived on this earth. There were also things that people saw in him that were divine; he knew a lot, he was very very wise, he could heal people, he claimed to be the son of God and the only way to heaven, he rose from the dead! For many reasons people don't believe these things; they can't see it, they can't reproduce it; there is a good reason why they cannot - it's history. John 20:29 says Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." So I suppose I'm saying both that this is an effective analogy for both understanding the nature of the Jesus God-Man argument and also for seeing how people's approach to science and religion or different kinds of belief are very different.

In regards to the way pinball machines are completely random and were not mastered by youth of a certain era because of the way something that is very small effects something in a big way down the line (the speed of the ball may change its trajectory by one degree which is unnoticable at the time but makes a big difference):

"So this is the idea of chaos: differences in initial condition so small as to be unmeasurable may give rise to very large differences later in the motion. The other classic example is that the smallest movement of a butterfly’s wing in the Amazonian jungle may change the initial conditions of the atmosphere to such an extent that a severe cyclone may be generated thousands of miles away on the tropical Australian coast."

I thought this was an interesting line of thought as to how God MIGHT intervene in our lives (I still think that it's fun to speculate but that quite frankly we may never completely or even in a tiny way understand God) but I always thought that the butterfly phrase was something to do with coincidence, or how big the earth is yet how small it is, not actually true - I might be taking it too literally =)