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If we can have so many failures with predetermined goals and desired outcomes, driven by intelligence, purpose and power.....how then could it even be remotely possible, that the evolutionary proccess being completely directionless with no intelligence, purpose or power, even achieve anything! let alone the mind boggling complexities that we see in life today?
It seems you are still thinking in the wrong terms. Think about a man standing on a hill and imagine a point somewhere weveral miles off where he started walking. You, being curious and having followed him, calculate the probability of his taking the path he took. The figure wil be unimaginably small. Would you be amazed that he made it from where he was to where he is? Suppose then, that you ask the man what caused him to take that path and he replies, "I was just walking and thinking. I am standing on this hill trying to figure out where I am."
He could have ended up in a hundred million different places. He jsut happened to end up at this one. But he would have ended up somewhere.
Imagine a lab full of scientists. These scientists are performing experiments, but, oddly, they have no goal. They aren't looking for anything. These are mad scientists. They mix some chemicals, look at the results, and remove some 'uninteresting' chemicals on a whim. Then they do the same thing again. And again. Over time you will get some very complex molecules. Every step of the way chances are 100% that they will get something, and that is all that matters. Try it. Its fun, though terribly dangerous.
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