Nothing may be planned or predetermined without a mechanism to plan or predetermine the thing upon. The mechanism for planning and predetermining a thing is code.
So it’s very simple. Find a code which details a thing before it existed, and call that thing planned or predetermined. But if no code is found to support the existence of a thing, then no one can claim it as definitely determined or random. Without a code, it could be either or. With a code, it must be determined.
The Pyramids, for instance… No code has ever been found which details their existence before they existed. We cannot therefor, logically claim that the pyramids were planned or predetermined. We can deduce an argument that they were created. But without a code, there is no basis for claiming it as truth.
I know this sounds crazy because it seems so obvious that the pyramids must have been planned… just like Paley’s watch. The shape, the tools, the apparent purpose… all lead to deductive logic being used to claim they were planned ahead of time rather than just appearing through a random act of chaos. But we cannot confuse the inscriptions within the pyramids with a coded plan which predetermined them. The inscriptions within the pyramids don’t tell us how they were built any more than cave art inscriptions explains how a cave is planned or predetermined.
But when we do find a code, then we must follow the same logic and rightfully claim predetermination. Knowing the author is irrelevant. We must induce the existence of an author wherever a code is found.
Your genetic code predetermines your eye color, your race, your gender, and much more. It is a six billion letter plan to build a unique individual. Surely claiming that could occur by chance of chaos would also require us to claim the pyramids were an accident too.