A powerful reflection on how Scripture and reason reveal your life has meaning—and was planned from eternity
“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world…”
— Ephesians 1:4
Are You Really Just a Cosmic Accident?
In the modern world, you're told you're a speck. A byproduct of random atoms, evolved through blind processes, existing in a cold and indifferent universe. A blip. A mistake. A fluke of chemistry.
But your soul knows better.
There’s a whisper within you — one that science cannot fully measure and society cannot fully silence — that says:
“You are not random. You were meant to be.”
This isn’t emotional wishful thinking. It’s a claim that can be tested by logic, philosophy, science, and Scripture.
Let’s follow the evidence.
I. The Logical Impossibility of an Accidental Universe
The idea that everything came from nothing — with no cause, no purpose, no mind — defies basic logic.
“Out of nothing, nothing comes.”
— David Hume, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher
Even atheist thinkers struggle with this:
🔬 Stephen Hawking (atheist physicist) attempted to claim:
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.”
But this is self-contradictory. If “nothing” contains the law of gravity, it’s not “nothing.” The law implies a lawgiver. Logic implies order. Order implies mind.
Even Sir Roger Penrose, Hawking’s colleague and fellow physicist (not a theist), admitted the fine-tuning of the universe is beyond natural explanation:
“The likelihood of the Big Bang producing a universe as ordered as ours is 1 in 10 to the 10 to the 123rd power.”
(The Road to Reality, 2004)
That’s not random. That’s designed.
And if the universe was designed… so were you.
II. The Impossibility of Your DNA Being an Accident
Your DNA — the code that defines your body, your eyes, your fingerprints, your biological story — is a language.
Dr. Francis Collins, a once-atheist scientist and head of the Human Genome Project, said:
“DNA is like the language of God.”
He converted to Christianity after realizing that information cannot arise from chaos without a Mind behind it.
He concluded:
“As a scientist, I came to the view that belief in God is the most rational choice.”
Think about it:
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Your DNA contains 3 billion letters of instructions.
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It’s more complex than any software ever written.
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It functions with precision from the moment of your conception.
That’s not an accident. That’s intentional design.
III. Scripture Declares: You Were Known Before You Were Born
Even before science confirmed the miracle of life at conception, Sacred Scripture had already declared the eternal intention of your existence:
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.”
— Jeremiah 1:5
“Even the hairs of your head are all numbered.”
— Luke 12:7
“You are fearfully and wonderfully made.”
— Psalm 139:14
“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.”
— Ephesians 1:4
God’s Word doesn’t say you became valuable.
It says you were known, chosen, and loved before you took your first breath.
IV. The Rationality of Being Chosen
Critics often argue that religion is emotionally manipulative. But this argument fails to deal with how reason itself points to intention in creation.
If:
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Matter doesn't create itself,
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Complex systems (like your brain and DNA) don’t self-assemble without intelligent cause,
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Moral awareness can’t emerge from amoral molecules,
Then the rational conclusion is that you are the product of mind, not matter.
That mind isn’t indifferent. That mind is personal. And if personal, it is capable of love.
In Catholicism, that mind has a name: God the Father, who chose you in His Son, Jesus Christ, before time began.
V. Testimonies from Reasonable Converts
🧠 Dr. Holly Ordway, once a committed atheist and professor of English literature, rejected religion as irrational. But as she studied the intellectual roots of Catholicism through Tolkien and Lewis, she found:
“The Church had the fullness of truth. I came for reason—and found beauty, history, and grace.”
🧠 Leah Libresco, former atheist and statistician:
She wrote for Patheos’ atheist channel but converted when she realized her belief in objective moral truth could not exist without a transcendent mind.
“The world felt wrong. And if it was wrong, there had to be a right. And if there was a right... there had to be a God.”
Their conversions were not emotional reactions — they were logical conclusions.
VI. You Have a Role in the Plan
Catholicism teaches that you were not only created — you were called.
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand…”
— Ephesians 2:10
The Church exists to help you discover:
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Your identity as a child of God
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Your mission in this life
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Your destiny in the next
This isn’t self-help. It’s reality. You were made to love, to serve, and to glorify the One who made you — and in doing so, to find lasting joy.
VII. Don’t Let Fallacies Steal Your Purpose
Non-believers may respond with mockery, ridicule, or logical fallacies like:
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Ad hominem: Attacking people instead of the argument
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Strawman: Misrepresenting Catholic beliefs to tear them down
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Appeal to ridicule: Using sarcasm instead of reason
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Appeal to popularity: “Most people don’t believe anymore, so it must be false”
These are not arguments. They are distractions.
Truth doesn’t fear questioning. But questioning must be honest, grounded in evidence, and open to being changed.
Final Words: You Are Not an Accident
Your existence is not a random event.
Your worth is not determined by feelings or failures.
Your life is not meaningless.
You were chosen. You are known. You are loved.
The Catholic Church — for all its depth, mystery, and struggle — offers a worldview in which your life has eternal value. Not as a poetic metaphor, but as a rational, historical, and theological reality.
You were thought of, loved, and chosen — before the stars were lit.
🌱 Next Steps for the Seeker:
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Read Ephesians 1 slowly, prayerfully
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Watch Fr. Robert Spitzer’s series on the rational evidence for God and the soul
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Read The Case for Catholicism by Dr. Trent Horn
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Ask yourself: Is it more rational to believe I’m an accident — or that I was made on purpose, for a purpose?
“The glory of God is man fully alive.”
— St. Irenaeus, 2nd century
It’s time to live like you were made for something more.
Because you were.
