[js1138]

"I've come to believe," says Wolfram, "that natural selection is not all that important."

I suggest you think about this very carefully. What's being asserted is not that evolution doesn't take place, but that variation is constrained by previously unnoticed physical constraints. The underlying message is that "chance" deals with fewer potential outcomes. This undercuts the argument that evolution is impossibly improbable.

[AndrewC]

I suggest you think about this very carefully.

I did. You are demonstrating that I was correct when I described the statement, among others, as provocative.