Time to wander into theology, yes? Yes! Disclaimer: I don't have any theology degrees or experience, so this might get really incorrect really fast.
Alright, so as human understanding of physical science gets deeper, it would become increasingly more difficult to hide intelligent intervention as a random event in some unpredictable layer. Assuming there is some intelligent agent beyond space and time (which is easier to refer to as "God"), such an agent would probably want to conceal some of its interventions, such as causing a person via MapQuest to take one turn on a road trip that would otherwise be less efficient but puts said person in a situation of spiritual growth. (I don't have any theology degrees or really any experience, so this might get really incorrect really fast.) When humanity was in its early stages with few people on any major road at a time, a God might spawn an obstruction in a road fork without the instant appearance of said rock being noticed. As humanity is able to survey and detect more changes, a God needs to make changes at a lower level such as the subatomic level to avoid getting noticed. Eventually, I support pseudo-random number generators in computers will be one of the very few event sources left that cannot be monitored. When humanity is at such a state, the only alternatives for a God to set an event in motion will be actual random number generators (e.g. uranium decay) and the weird shaking of the quantum layer, which is technically totally unpredictable. Perhaps this is why such a God might create the quantum layer in the universe?
I guess that was theology-ish...
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