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Evolution is not randomness. It is running smaller incremental multiple randomlike experiments and only few pass to the next increment where again a lot of vari
by gls2ro 4y ago
Evolution is not randomness. It is running smaller incremental multiple randomlike experiments and only few pass to the next increment where again a lot of variations will be generated and again selected only some few for the next stage ...
So in your example with the house here is how it might be:
Throwing 1 quadrillion times materials will they arrange in a fundation?
Of course. Then throw again and will there be some kind of wall or pillar?
Then you now have foundation and pillars. Throw again a huge number of times, will there be materials that might form a wall?
Please also take into consideration that evolution is not only in a vertical progression (from materials to house) but also running horizontally (like creating multiple types of walls of all shapes before going for a roof).
But more importantly evolution will not create a house as long as there is not need for one.
On the other hand, as we are poaching the limits of science: how do you know that given a close to infinite number of arrangements those materials will not arrange into a house?
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Evolution is not randomness. Darwinian evolution in the narrow sense is duplication of life plus random variation plus filtering (that may also be random, but which at a minimum contains some bias which is, if not consistent over time, at least usually changes very slowly compared to the rate of random of variation.) Darwinian evolution in the broad sense is the same thing, but without the “of life” part. But abiogenesis is not Darwinian evolution in the narrow sense, and may or may not significantly involve Darwinian evolution in the broad sense, so arguing about what evolution is or is not in the context of the initial creation of life as opposed to the explosion of diversity of life after its initial creation is, at best, skipping steps.