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I get the strange feeling that people who do not want to look at beginnings, or first causes, are like folks that come into a movie theater after the film has already started rolling; they speak and act as if they believe that the film actually began when they got there. What happened before their arrival simply doesn't matter. But in actuality, the film's entire set-up can be found in the portion of it that wasn't seen by the late-comer. Absent that set-up, it wouldn't be at all unusual for the movie goer simply to believe and say that everything he saw after his arrival was "random." He would of course strive to make sense of it; but he'd be missing information critical to a proper understanding.

Very good analogy. I'll have to remember that one.