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Originally Posted by bns  I don't really know what pressures. I'm just saying that I think there's something at work that hasn't been considered (at least that I know of). Very few things in this world are actually random, and I don't believe genetic mutation is random either. I think it's merely so complex that we haven't figured out how to predict it yet. |
It seems to me that anything and everything outside human control is random. Isn't that what the adage; ' the advantage humans have over other living species is the ability to reason!' means? I'm sitting here looking out my back door at a tree. I know we can reason that the growth of that tree is predictable, and whoever planted it where it is is not random but if we take human interference and reason away, isn't it all random? But, then again we are here, and if that is by chance, then doesn't our ability to reason slap everything else in the face? So, after saying all that, I believe it's all random - even us. What if our deductive reasoning is total chaos to an anthropologist from another planet?