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Lets focus on the chance vs. design conversation here first.
For all 3 of those examples you gave you would have to pick a conclusion of chance or design. Can you explain how any of those 3 could be conceived of as both chance and design at the same time? The only third option is to simply say I dont know.
All three of those options involve structures determined by "chance" (which is itself a more complicated idea than the simple word suggests, but that doesn't really matter at the level we're operating on right now), operating within a designed structure that constrains the possible range that chance can operate on. The end result is in fact determined by both design and chance, operating at the same time. A different design would create different results, even if "chance" operated the same way. The same design might create different results, if "chance" operated differently.