Hmmm, there are many references by prominent physicalists like Richard Dawkins and Brian Greene that state quite clearly that life and the universe are generated by random processes. Isn’t the whole neo-Darwinian project about the random occurrence of minor genetic mutations selected for fitness? The ideas of self-organization and complexity theories, particularly coming out of the Santa Fe Institute, are relatively recent additions and seem to me similar in many respects to the idea of natural teleology or, in Stuart Kauffman’s description: natural magic.