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?-Accident? A consequence more like. A result. Serendipity rather than accidental. But accident works too.-I think evolution is a process that does not require a specified result.