(May 15, 2014 at 11:04 pm)Chas Wrote:(May 15, 2014 at 11:02 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: We're talking about other contributing factors besides natural selection and random mutation. These other "random forces" could be things like geography, climate, catastrophic events like meteors or hurricanes, the elemental composition of Earth, etc.
You seem not to understand natural selection. Those 'random forces' are part of the sieve that is natural selection.
Semantics.
You're right, but how natural selection did occur isn't necessarily how it had to occur.
