causation (Introduction)

by romansh , Friday, June 06, 2014, 02:07 (3607 days ago) @ David Turell

David: Then you agree with Gould that we are here by accident?
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> > Rom: Accident? A consequence more like. A result. Serendipity rather than accidental.
> > But accident works too.
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> > I think evolution is a process that does not require a specified result.
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> Accident is the word Gould used. Then you are convinced evolution is a totally unguided process, per Darwin, with random results?
Well I can't make certain predictions that evolution will take. Can you?-So in this sense they are random.-Having said that, evolution is guided by the environment a living creature finds itself. So in that sense it is guided.