Natural selection is anything but random.
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The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
Natural selection is not evolution.
I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.