699.
Let's sample a little bit from this one:
There is no conscious, purposeful selection. For all that, the outcome is not random. The trend is toward increasing adaptation to current conditions. That's it.733.No anthropic Nature, no big guy with a fuzzy beard.
After all that, what do we have from Mr. "You Can't Make Me Understand"?
You are trying to imply natural selection is not random but you wrongheadedly used the term directed which implies working toward a goal (meaning you are saying non-radomness is directed rather than observed in the past tense). What you have done is claim the non-randomness is the result of direction - if this is true, you have just falsified a core principle of evolution.From 741.
Don't get me started about how Patrick agreed with me that "random" and "directed" are not opposites and troll-boy agreed with him ...
(Too late!)
random - no specific pattern, purpose, or objective
directed - To cause to move toward a goal
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(#761) PatrickHenry: "the opposite of "directed" is un-directed. A process that is un-directed may be chaotic, or random "
(#805) PatrickHenry: "Although random isn't directed, it isn't the opposite of directed."