Re: Coding style - a non-issue

Daniel Phillips
2001-12-02T19:20:30Z

On December 2, 2001 08:04 pm, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:41:26 +0100
> Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> wrote:
>
> > One fact that is often missed by armchair evolutionists is that evolution is
> > not random. It's controlled by a mechanism (most obviously: gene shuffling)
> > and the mechanism *itself* evolves. That is why evolution speeds up over
> > time. There's a random element, yes, but it's not the principal element.
>
> You mean "controlled" up to the point where your small environment got randomly
> hit by a smaller sized stone coming right from the nowhere corner of the
> universe, or not?

See "principal" above. There's a random element in the game of bridge, too,
but it's not the principal element.

--
Daniel