Do you believe in destiny?

Destiny vs Free choice is truly an age-old argument. It's part of the essential question all humans have never solved - we have many forms for this question, what is life, it;s meaning, do we have choices or is their predetermined fate? Are we in control, is something else governing everything, is there a god, why can't we know, what is beyond the stars, how do we think, what is consciousness, How, who, when, where, what am I? These are all part of the same fundamental question, the question of humanity.
So, when addressing this question, it is really grappling with the oldest question known to man. The question that we cannot solve with any known means with certainty.

Destiny, is a man-made concept to describe one view, one partial answer to this prodigious question. I do not believe in the concept by it's strictest definition - I believe that man has created destiny to govern itself, as a way of grappling with unknowns. If we cannot explain exactly how something has happened, or will happen, we can label it, make our own explanations. This is not to say that Destiny is a made-up force with no affect on people. People give destiny power. When they believe that something is driven by destiny, they work hard to get it. When they truly believe that something happened because of destiny, it did happen because of destiny to them.

I cannot claim that this answers any of the question, only that it explores a new direction. The question of humanity is unique in that in attempting to answer it all we have to work with is ourselves. Mathematics and science has several man-made principles with which we grapple with problems in those fields.
Destiny,  is an attempt to make a tool, not unlike a mathematic principle or a scientific theory, with which to understand the question of humanity.