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Darwin might disagree.

Perhaps you can say evolution is accidental, without intention. Quite a happy accident in my opinion.




Evolution does not necessarily move towards optimal systems, by any definition. It may find local optima, but the process has no guarantees it's moving towards a global optimum.


I am guessing your downvoters have never heard of mass extinction events.

EDIT: Here.... let me google up an example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event


A billion years of living things eating each other. Quite happy, indeed.




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