[Soliton]

Evolution isn't random.

[Liberty1970]

Naturalistic evolution is a combination of law and chance (randomness). Pre-adaptationism (such as this article implies) is a distinctly non-evolutionary concept. It's like proposing, "OK, it's unreasonable to believe a car evolved by chance... but if we just assume the pre-existing existence of an automated, robotic car factory, then the spontaneous generation of an automobile becomes quite reasonable."

Sure. But such proposals elevate the level of complexity that now needs to be explained. Where did the presumed genetic machinery that can quickly produce refined responses to environmental changes come from, and how does it know which responses (out of an astronomical number of random and mostly harmful responses) are useful? It's no wonder that the originator of this whole approach to evolutionary difficulties, Dr. Dean Kenyon, eventually became a creationist.

[Vaquero]

thats it... the election is over and now its time to put a burr under the collective saddle of the Luddites.

That means nothing is important anymore in Washington. That would be nice but it is not true.

[ClearCase_guy]

Looks like Intelligent Design is finally catching on.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

So evolution is teleological, eh? Interesting.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[Gitche Gumee]

[scottdeus12]

“Evolution isn’t random.”

So you are saying it’s ordered?

[RightWhale]

That’s correct. It is stochastic. Big difference.