Of course they represent reality. The questions are: how well do they represent it? and what do we mean by "well"?
If a programmer wrote a program, when that program was initiated the program would run by itself as a loop (as long as the programmer kept the computer running) which would create the laws of physics, and set in motion a dance between programmed random chance and the laws of physics...then nothing more than the wave of His hand would take place at the initiation of the program... Anyone who thinks the universe is not programmed, is not really paying attention... Programmed randomness is by design...
I can live with the circle. God set it all in motion, and man can observe and describe it. The believers are happy that God is still acknowledged, and practical men can still put a satellite in orbit (not that the two groups are mutually exclusive).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, if this is true, why does the god/designer put that randomness in the world? Why so complicated if the god can make that easy too? For example some people (by randomn) born in very poor countrys. Why do the god choose (SOME) people to be born to the poor country and some to be born to the wealthy country?