It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Dawkins asserts that natural selection is not random chance but a systematic process, making evolution a robust theory rather than a game of luck.
- In plain terms
- Evolution works because it is not just random chance but a consistent process.
- What can you take from it?
- Natural selection provides order to evolution, not just randomness.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is evolution random or directed?
- How does natural selection work?
Another view
Random mutations do play a key role in the process.
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