[Doctor Stochastic]

...that's rolling a lot of sevens....

The players have been rolling dice for lo these billions and billions of years now. There are trillions and trillions (maybe even quadrillions) of players too. The adequate survive.

[Sabertooth]

The players have been rolling dice for lo these billions and billions of years now. There are trillions and trillions (maybe even quadrillions) of players too. The adequate survive.

Perhaps...

But the evidence for the "endless crap game" model of evolution is far from adequate. Rather thin, actually... Just a series of extrapolations from assumptions.

More stochastic than compelling.

My conjecture is that other, unknown engines are driving evolution.