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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
He lives! Doesn't your day job have something to do with gene sequencing equipment?
No, you must be thinking of someone else.


Originally Posted by daperl View Post
Flips a coin?
There is no decision-making involved. Random mutations occur, and they and the individuals with those mutations either do well or do not do well due to the combination of the features of the individuals with the mutation and the environment that they live in. If they do well their numbers increase due to their survival, if not the opposite occurs. There is no decision-making to choose mutations or select mutations that have occurred for possible future environmental changes. The selection is due to the environment at the time. Now, certain changes might be helpful in different environments, but that is just dumb luck. If we are more adaptable than most, that is not due to some decision to make us so.
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