It seems to me that every time I talk to a Creationist or an Evolution Denier, they tell me that Evolution is \u201cjust random chance\u201d and that they see so much order and design that there must be a deity behind it. Many of these people claim to have some knowledge of evolution too. For me, as soon as I hear the phrase \u201cjust random chance,\u201d I almost automatically discount the person\u2019s claim of knowledge on the subject. Evolution is not about \u201cjust random chance\u201d and anyone who claims that it is clearly has little to no knowledge about the topic.<\/p>\n
If there seems to be some sort of design in life, that is because there probably is some sort of design in life. But that doesn\u2019t mean that there has to be a designer. The designer in the case of evolution is a natural process called \u201cnatural selection.\u201d While there are random chances and mutations within all species, it isn\u2019t random which mutations or traits are passed on and cause the species to evolve. That is determined by natural selection.<\/p>\n
Here is an example. Let\u2019s say I hire 20 people randomly to do a job. Over the course of a week, 5 of those people get burnt out and quit. The following week, 6 people are fired because they did a shitty job. After another few weeks, 4 more people are either fired or quit. Eventually, the people who stay with the job will be the people who have learned how to do the job best and who are the most skilled. They will then be the ones who will hire and train that next batch on workers. The skills that of those who survived from the original batch will be passed on to the new batch. The new batch will then learn even better ways to do the job and will pass those skills onto the next batch and so on down the line. That is natural selection.<\/p>\n
Now, five years later the company is doing really well and is known to have the most skilled workers in the industry. How do you explain such skilled workers? Someone comes along and says that the head of the company must have designed the perfect workers using genetic cloning because those skilled workers couldn\u2019t have possibly been hired by random chance. Someone else says, \u201cNo it wasn\u2019t genetic cloning, but such perfect workers couldn\u2019t be random chance, so it had to be aliens.\u201d Because those workers are so skilled, it leads one to believe that there must have been someone infinitely more skilled than those workers who had taught those workers because you can\u2019t have a less skilled worker teach a worker to have more skill; that goes against the law of master\/apprentice. In fact, people will start to make up all kinds of ridiculous stories to explain what Darwin explained with Natural Selection.<\/p>\n
Natural Selection is a slow process, but it works. We see it working every day with all kinds of systems, not just biology. We talk about evolution in all kinds of human endeavors. If something doesn\u2019t adapt to change, it dies out. If something continually adapts to change over time, it gets better. That\u2019s evolution and it isn\u2019t \u201cjust random chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
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