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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Julian wrote:   
   > noname wrote:   
   >>   
   >> There are no random mutations.  None.  Everything is mutating, all the   
   >> time.  Then people come along and look at the survivors and say they're the   
   >> result of "random" mutations.  There's nothing "random" about it, those are   
   >> the few of the infinite number of different kinds of survivors who actually   
   >> survived.   
   >   
   >Is there anything random at all?   
   >I suspect it is just a name for things not yet understood.   
      
   The word, random, often means, unpredictable.   
      
   When the next cosmic-ray-alpha-particle strikes   
   an atom in a strand of DNA and it sticks   
   such that a change occurs,   
   and is passed along,   
   might be understood in ways,   
   yet at the same time be beyond prediction.   
      
   Some folks like to connect dots.   
      
   They may see conspiracies, or purpose, or   
   how everything happens for a reason, by necessity,   
   or invoke a favorite paradigm they cling to, or   
   have observed to be true, for them.   
      
   Others might call doing that a rationalization,   
   a correlation, or woo, or, simply how things are.   
      
   Quantum Mechanics suggests what's called classical physics,   
   or deterministic-physics, simply is not the case. End of story.   
      
   Yet many people still subscribe to the old-school classics.   
   The Newtonion paradigm works fine for most applications.   
      
   TTC 1.1 is able to be applied as kneaded.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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