TheOtherDave comments on The Wonder of Evolution - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 28 April 2012 02:17:33AM 2 points [-]

All three of those options involve structures determined by "chance" (which is itself a more complicated idea than the simple word suggests, but that doesn't really matter at the level we're operating on right now), operating within a designed structure that constrains the possible range that chance can operate on. The end result is in fact determined by both design and chance, operating at the same time. A different design would create different results, even if "chance" operated the same way. The same design might create different results, if "chance" operated differently.