Evolution and natural selection ARE the gods of this world!

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Whether or not we were "planned", or rather inevitable, depends on just how deterministic the universe is. If it's entirely deterministic, then yeah, we were inevitable from the start. Otherwise, almost certainly not so. If I had to guess at gun point I'd say everything is entirely deterministic, but that's no more than a hunch. I don't think anyone in the world at this stage can say whether or not it is the case with any huge confidence. Some may in fact say it isn't the case with some degree of confidence, regarding quantum randomness. I don't know enough details about it to know whether this is something that could later be discovered to be non random, or not.