God's Algorithm

Today, I stayed so late in the office that i missed the last train and had to take a taxi home. No, i'm not usually that hardworking haha.

We had a great chat in our Moolah office, with arul, audrey and min. Then i had a call with pejman, marketing manager of GrowVC, about SEO and my idea for a crowdfunding event.

Well, thanks to this, i got to meet an interesting taxi uncle, and we discussed faith and religion. I ended up talking for some time in the taxi after stopping, and he even gave me a fatherly pat on the back when i left... Haha.

He believed in religion. That has always been something which i have always wanted to believe in, but didn't. Do we ever have a choice to 'decide' on the things we believe in? Or do our mind and personality, made up of all our experiences and thoughts so far, automatically make the connection, using some algorithm to match the dots together?

To extend it even further, how do natural events in the world 'choose' to occur? We have all these probabilities of them happening... at this very instant, the chance of a teeny-weeny asteroid hitting Earth is 0.2, and the chance of a dino-extinction sized one, 0.00000002. When we say that we leave something to fate, who or what actually 'decides' the actual event, out of a kazillion other random ones, to happen? If God is the one manipulating everything, does he have some automated decision-making system to churn out the outcomes for the many random events in this universe?
Pseudocode:

IF (human_behaviour == sucky) -> THEN (fricking_big_flood == ACTIVATED)

Now THAT would be God's Algorithm.