What’s the Chance?

What is chance? When someone says, “there’s one in a million chance that’ll happen!” They are saying, “it’s possible, but not probable.” There are two options, hope or despair. What about chance though? What about when it comes to the creation of the world? Is that by chance? Sometimes, when chance is used in correlation to the creation of the world, people almost make it sound like chance had a hand in the action. As if chance was, or still is, a force to be contended with. But… can chance be a force? Is it a force when you flip a coin? When you flip a coin in the air you have a fifty-fifty chance of heads or tails (just to keep it simple). Does chance influence the coin? No, wind can, gravity certainly does, the speed of travel, and the force at which you flick it into the air, but chance is not a mathematical variable. Chance is an expectation weighed upon by the compilation of results. We know there’s a fifty-fifty chance, because of previous coin tosses. Chance is not a cause, it’s an analyzation of effects. So, was the world made by chance?