Faith in "luck" explains it all, since luck does not judge us for immorality.
The strange, cosmic reason our evolutionary path will look ever luckier the longer we survive.
That is, our forecasts about the future could be blinded by our necessarily lucky past.
that their existence depends on them being very, very lucky.
Perhaps this fantastic luck—one that’s necessary
they were lucky it was me on shift that night.”
where everything is obliterated and a luckier version that’s spared.
very rare observers that see him being very, very lucky.
Yet they would likely call this story fictitious, thus Snopes got called but affirmed it:
Church Explosion Spares Choir. Snopes Staff Published 31 December 1998
Choir practice at the West Side Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska, always began at 7:20 on Wednesday evening. At
But every one of the choir’s fifteen members escaped injury, saved by a fortuitous coincidence: All were late for practice that night. Considering the sanctified site of the explosion, it was not surprising that some attributed the near miss to divine intervention.
They supposed rightly that the odds of unanimous tardiness were slim indeed, especially when the reasons were examined. Car trouble delayed two women. The minister and his wife and daughter were delayed by a dress that needed ironing at the last minute. Others were late because they paused to complete homework, finish a letter, or hear the end of a favorite radio show. One awoke late from a nap. Some could think of no special reason; they were just late.
It is impossible to calculate precise odds for all these events occurring at once. But past performance indicated that each person would be late for practice one time in four — producing a one-in-a-million chance that the entire choir would be late that night.
That same series of chance seemed to work on 9/11 also. Normally, at that time of day, there could have been nearly 55,000 people in those towers. But major traffic jams on all the bridges, unforeseen events in the boroughs and a host of other situation kept the vast majority of people from getting to the towers on time. And they never did.
Videos show that a multitude of people were headed to the towers when the first plane hit, and they turned around and left.