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To: 43north; csense

"randomness"

Is there really that much randomness out there in biology? If there WAS true randomness in evolution, wouldn't we see some animals with three eyes, five legs, a mouth on its chest, unsymmetrical bodies, etc?

Instead, nature is incredibly uniform: virtually every creature has a head at the front of its body, with 2 eyes, a mouth and nose close-by, an even number of limbs, symmetrical bodies, proteins that all have a "right-handed twist", etc.

Sounds like patterns, not randomness, to me.


109 posted on 09/09/2006 11:55:40 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

My cat thinks I go to work at completely random times. He doesn't understand my schedule.

Undetected patterns != randomness


142 posted on 09/10/2006 1:32:05 AM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: canuck_conservative
Is there really that much randomness out there in biology?
Yes.

If there WAS true randomness in evolution, wouldn't we see some animals with three eyes, five legs, a mouth on its chest, unsymmetrical bodies, etc?
No.

Instead, nature is incredibly uniform: virtually every creature has a head at the front of its body, with 2 eyes, a mouth and nose close-by, an even number of limbs, symmetrical bodies, proteins that all have a "right-handed twist", etc
No.

153 posted on 09/10/2006 6:53:56 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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