(Yesterday at 6:12 am)Jal Wrote: I'm not getting your point. Your giraffe example seems moot. You provide a scenario where Natural Selection would likely suffice while conveniently ignoring the scenarios in my OP - scenarios critically dependent on the ability to rapid-respond to needs and danger (instead of waiting in vain for the Universe's domino-effect to randomly, blindly, and fortuitously shove the mammal in the needed direction at the right instant in time).
So I support that ultimately IS the point - that giraffe example, didn't happen over night, it still would have taken hundreds of thousands of years to happen, and even there - there was a chance the giraffe didn't have a mutation that allowed some of them to live at all - which in this case is ultimately "randomly, blindly shoving the mammal in the needed direction".
The way evolution works is: there is no "needed direction". Just multiple things happening all at once, and the ones living long enough pass on their genes. Those genes may not get passed on at all [then they die] and those that do get passed on, aren't necessarily to benefit of the animal in question, which may then also lead them to die off in different circumstances further down the line - Its a very large shit show of a process that occours based entirely round "chance"
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