"Random" is a fancy way of saying "the gods" did it, which in turn means we have no idea why things went down that way. In earlier times if you rolled dice and

"Random" is a fancy way of saying "the gods" did it, which in turn means we have no idea why things went down that way. In earlier times if you rolled dice and won, you would think "the gods favor me today". Nowadays, you think "I am lucky today". In almost all cases where an analogous situation can be found historically, randomness (sometimes combined with extremely long periods of time) replaced God as an explanation. Also, already there are people who worship RNGesus in the extremely rudimentary virtual realities we can construct.