The cosmos can be randomly destructive Change is creative, but it is also destructive. The destructive powers unleashed in the cosmos are awesome. Explosions and collisions are routine. Most of the moons in the solar system are scarred like smallpox victims with the impact craters of meteorites. Galaxies collide, passing through each other, disrupting stars and planetary systems and any life that might be on them.
Stars explode in supernovae.
Life on earth has suffered its share of catastrophes. In the last 600 million years there have been five massive holocausts of biodiversity, and eleven other mass extinctions of major extent. The great Permian extinction, some 250 million years ago wiped out 90 per cent of all pre-existing species. The cosmos is infinitely creative Change is destructive, but it is also creative. The cosmos, and life on earth, are continually pulling down old forms and trying out new, like a potter who mangles a botched creation on the wheel to start a new one.