| Re: The randomness of Evolution Notwithstanding that the possibility (or probability for many) that intervention into the development of life here on Earth might well have been instrumental in its persistence to this day, there can be no rational argument against the compelling evidence that randomness in the process favored selection of the fittest if we accept the fact that brilliant minds have contributed to the knowledge base concerning the subject of evolution.
According to the information we find surfacing from the mountains of research and investigation, the evolution of single-celled life forms with a few nucleotide sequences in them into single-celled life with a nucleus containing early DNA, or eukaryotes, was a process occurring over a period of about two billion years. That fact alone points to a random factor in the selection process.
What this fact also points to is the stubborn determination that life will manifest as a matter of course, for in that time frame any number of random cataclysmic events may have affected the process to sabotage and delay the inevitable. This is just one justification for the presumption of the idea that this Universe is anthropocentric in nature. |