Adolf Hitler beleived that fate was the tyrue religion ---note his capitalisation of the word throughout Mein Kampf---. But there must be some fate, even if not cosmic, or sentient. Everything on earth ---living or otherwise--- has a pattern. Electrons will always spin around atoms. But this can change; If the atom is radioactive the electron may be emmitted in Gamma Decay. Either could be considered fate; the first scientific, the second being cosmic. I personally beleive in the first.