Why Something Rather Than Nothing?

[Chas]

A bug flies into a room through the open door, and starts fluttering about wildly, obviously hoping that these (mostly) random motions will, with a bit of luck, allow it to find the door and get back outside.

If the bug were smarter, it might be able to find its way out by thinking. But it's stupid, so it relies on the primitive random path generator to escape the trap of the room. Yet for all that, it may nevertheless succeed, which means that randomness is a form of intelligence.

No, it doesn't. That makes no sense on any level.

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Did I say evolution was random? Wtf? I explicitly pointed out that evolution involves a random process of mutations which is complemented with a deterministic process of natural selection.

Both randomness and necessity are individually necessary and jointly sufficient for evolution to proceed.

Random mutations provide the variations necessary to sort organisms into fit and unfit. The fit survive, and the unfit perish deterministically.

No, natural selection is not deterministic. Where did you get that idea?

It is contingent, it is probabilistic.