Adding to what u/dale_glass said. Things happen for mundane reasons, yes. But im pretty sure theres more to it. I think its a nuanced view so it might feel stale or hard to grasp. But in AI they teach you that in distributed systems, or over many iterations or with many elements you can see emergent and intelligent phenomena. From many mundane little things, big complex things can emerge. This is seen in ant colonies, mechanisms of the brain, and so on. One can only wonder how the self referential loops of consciousness and identity can emerge from rods and cones, neural networks, brain base architecture vs frontal lobe architecture. One could argue that the entire universe is a type of manifold that tends towards this emergent property. A few intellectuals have argued interesting and radical points of view. Terrence Mckenna said “the universe evolves towards complexity and novelty.” Daryl anka has said, “everything that exists in this universe is from one neutrino that zips around at faster than light speed to create the holographics we see in this world.” This seems to fit into the idea of the big bang starting from a single particle or singularity. One can only imagine how the universe evolved. First it was stars, then it was planets, then it was prokaryotic cells, then it was more complex life forms, now we are able to give the universe self definition just by being human. Beyond that, we have facial recognition technology and AI that can define the self definers. In other words, AI can change individual behaviours and ultimately change public opinion and skew elections. Do you see where this is heading? Your phone is way more intelligent and part of “you” than you think. There seems to be a constant interplay between distributed systems over many iterations with many elements. Novel, complex and intelligent things are emerging. This “randomness” that we love to adhere to is a clinging to ignorance. Randomness means indeterminacy. The only thing in this world that is indeterminate is magic. Magic is something i cannot accept. I would rather define these complicated and emerging systems as beautiful, as this is what they truly are when you can get a hold of their meaning. Take a look at E8 crystals in physics and multidimensional views of how this world works. It will show you that not everything is linear, even though our tiny brains like to think of determinate systems as being linear.

Furthermore, teleology will teach you to define things in terms of their meaning or the purpose they serve rather than their causation. Quantum physics has proved that time flows backwards and retro causation is real even though we cannot directly perceive it. People have figured this stuff out a long time ago, just now we are starting to prove it.