Rom:Who or what is requiring a specified result? > Would a roulette wheel count as an event not requiring a specified result?-Yes. > -> Rom: I am not familiar with Gould ... though I have heard his name a mentioned in connection with punctuated equilibrium. Disagree with the term equilibrium, the environment is definitely nowhere near equilibrium, but I understand his point.-Then you agree with Gould that we are here by accident?