Coincidences happen.
Many people I love and respect don't believe that, but they do happen. And they do not count as signs from gods, unless we're going to accept all coincidences as signs from gods.
On the Experiment FaceBook page, another blogger commented that he'd had a couple of nice coincidences since the project started.
He saw a job that he wanted to apply for, and a creationist public figure returned his phone call. He doesn't have the job, and he placed the call asking for Eric Hovind to call him back.
Here's my problem with this kind of thinking. People who attach meaning to coincidence are seldom willing to be consistent.
If you're going to say that Hurricane Katrina was a sign from Jesus that New Orleans was being judged, for instance, then you're going to have to accept the full implications of that superstition. The French Quarter of New Orleans (where the good sinning takes place) was not flooded by Katrina. On the other hand, Mississippi's coastline was struck a severe blow. If Katrina was a message from Jesus, then, it was a message that Jesus doesn't like Bible-believing Mississippi, but he miraculously saved the 24-hour bars in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Frankly, that happens about as often as an astrologer admitting that nothing in a horoscope was relevant on the day its prediction was published.
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