Lekatt wrote:It happens for no reason at all in randomness. No matter how you try to argue for randomness, that argument will fail. Carbon dating depends on order, physical laws depends on order, science depends on order, even evolution depends on order.
Here again, you rely upon a statement from authority, and the only authority in evidence is your assertion of your opinion. In fact, carbon dating depends up the degredation of a specific carbon isotope--precisely because it is not in a steady state, it is possible to know how long it has been since the carbon containing the isotope was included in the item being dated.
You are either incapable of assimilating the concept, or are willfully ignoring that the order of which you speak is imposed by the observer. Physical laws do not depend on order, our expression of what we believe to be true about the physical universe depends upon an orderly expression which allows others to comprehend. The universe is supremely indifferent to your existence or mine. Certainly science, and any theoretical sub-set of science such as evolution depend upon order--but it is the order imposed by the observer to facilitate comprehension. In the specific case of evolution, mutations occur randomly. If in the presence of such random mutations, the environmental circumstances in which the studied species exists have change in such a way as to favor the reproductive opportunity of the mutated individuals, natural selection will occur. If not, than the mutated individuals have no enhanced breeding opportunity, or even less opportunity, and will only recur in the species as a random mutation.
I rather think the idea of a lack of order frightens you. Why cannot you conceive of the possibility that randomness facilitates the development of life forms, and that the inability to change spells death, sooner or later, and very likely sooner rather than later, for the class under discussion?
