tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11135493.post-26662153354765311322008-06-26T16:06:00.000Z2008-06-26T16:06:00.000Z"Evolutionist: No, there was a storm last night and this morning I found this car so it must mean that the storm, through a series of convenient accidents, manufactured this Ford Mustang."<BR/><BR/>Lol<BR/><BR/>Yeah, that's really how evolutionists talk (sarcasm). <BR/><BR/>I think someone hasn't read "The Blind Watchmaker", and is still conflating evolution in its entirety with "random chance". <BR/><BR/>Of course, the difference between a Ford Mustang and a human is that the latter has <I>heredity</I>. A Mustang has no other way to come about than through a cosmic fluke (all the parts happening to assemble themselves together) or - much more reasonably - through the actions of an intelligent agent. Humans, on the other hand, have heredity, which means that changes can accrue over many generations. It's cumulative, not all or nothing. Natural selection is inherently non-random. Mutations and other processes at the genetic level are random, but the changes that get preserved get preserved not for the fuck of it, but because of the consequences of the change. It's in that important, utterly vital sense that natural selection is non-random.Luihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05210714337197709016noreply@blogger.com