COVID19. A lot of factors come together to cause the ‘evolutionary’ variant changes to ‘stick’. Proximity to other variants. Distance from antigens for a prolonged time. Chance is one of many factors. Darwinian ideas might play a role but that seems to be belittled nowadays. What nobody fully understands is the role of providence. Call it reversed entropy if you like. Convenient changes. Serendipity. Things moving towards a beneficial outcome such as Omicron. Omicron combining several changed properties resulting in rapid spread plus reduced threat to life. An overall benefit. And after there had been just a few variants. Coincidence? Understanding coincidence is like understanding providence. Very remarkably beneficial changes or very noticeably harmful changes, remarkably varying from the expected statistical average. Luck - good or bad. Here we should ask “Does God throw dice?” Answer: perhaps not but God determines outcomes. Science cannot comment on that because it is the unknown, non natural, untestable, undetectable metaphysical universe where science only sees matter, energy and gravity, but cannot tell us if that is all there is because it is unable to see that far.
