Beyond chance

This show is very interesting. Some of the stories are incredible and does give cause to wonder.

Whilst the title is misleading - "Beyond Chance" is making a statement that chance is out of the question, suggesting that a higher force is at play - the programme is interesting for the fact that it demonstrates chance can produce some extraordinary circumstances that would seem impossible. Perhaps a more accurate title for the show would have been "Beyond Chance?".

It raises an interesting point - just how extraordinary does a situation have to be before chance can be excluded from the list of possibilities? As an example; if the mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson of the University of East Anglia for predicting life on other Earth-like planets is correct, then it would indeed be an extraordinarily low chance of life existing elsewhere - 0.01% over 4 billion years. Yet, we cannot dismiss it - after all, we are here!

As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mused through his famous Baker Street invention, "When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

I agree a question mark in the title would have been better.

I did like this show. Some of the things that happened were amazing and the coincidences alike.

Maybe it's the way our individual minds work but I find big coincidences mean more than just the coincidence. I feel something deeper is taking place, like it's meant to be and that someone is out there watching It's like - Let the force be with you

With some of the things happening on this show Its easy to imagine something is going on.

A hot air balloonist crashes into a womans garden.She had only moved in a week earlier.
He tells her his name and she dashes indoors to come out with his ring that he had lost 20yrs earlier.She found it and kept it all that time.

Now..looks good on the surface but I did wonder why she never tried to trace him when she found the ring as it had his name in it.

Still...very much a huge huge coincidence.

I haven't seen that one - I used to watch it some years back. Maybe she did try, but a name alone is pretty hard to track someone down - especially if it isn't unusual. I recall my mum keep phoning a name out the phone book to track somebody down she and my dad served in the army with - she went through loads of names but did find their relation eventually, who was able to put her in contact

She never said but could have tried to find him.

I found that to be one of the more interesting ones.Just happened to land in her garden.

I wonder if anyone'll land in ours Milk Tray Man

nah...I am not that lucky.

Me neither - I'd prefer ' choc mud pie man'