The universe is random in its evolutionary process…
the evolution of the universe is the result of random interactions of energy and matter, which leads to conclude…
There is no fundamental organizing framework…
therefore no need to look for one.
The tendency toward disorganization and dissolution, called entropy, is the only direction the evolution of the universe follows…
with no inclusion of a principle of organization other than random interactions, the inevitable process of evolving systems is always heading towards entropy.
The universe is viewed as
a machine…
it is made of a set of mechanical parts that can be taken apart and studied just as you would a clock.
Matter itself (the atoms and molecules that make everything in the “physical” universe)
is dead…
it has no life or consciousness in it and is therefore completely at the whim of random forces.
The “machine” universe (the perceived “reality”) can be studied through the continual reduction of the whole to ever-increasingly smaller parts…
the search for fundamental “particles” at the quantum level is the inevitable result of this reductionist approach.