> If chance is at the helm of reality and history, there can be no science, no math, no probability, no persistence of personhood,...

Nonsense, lots of things might be set up by chance like the fundamental constants of nature, but that does not preclude us from discovering the laws of physics and mathematics, and from those laws, everything else.

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There no laws if chance governs all.

You clearly didn't understand my comment, go back and reread.

I understood it. If chance governs all, then there can be no "laws" about anything. No predictions can be made. No scientific method could be applied. It cannot be assumed that things will be tomorrow as they have been in the past.

You clearly don't get it, go reread and look up the anthropic principle.

The improbable scenario in which this set of constraints developed entirely by chance, to allow what we see, is difficult to believe. As are most alternative explanations.

As I've already said in other comments, evolution is NOT governed by chance.

Yea I didn't mention evolution. Would not the set of constraints on reality needed to result in what we see necessarily need to arrive by either chance or by design?

The chance part is that we find ourselves in such a condition, among infinite possible conditions. Sure, we could only yak about it here where such things are possible, but it is still improbable from here.