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Originally Posted by amicus_curiae
In re Darwinian evolution: Because we’re unable to predict mutation, we see logic in the process only after evolution has occurred. If there were any logic in evolutionary biology, we’d be able to predict logical outcomes… but we can’t. Evolution occurs in the minute mutations of a species, in a randomness inherent in each individual creature, dependent upon variables rather than consistencies. Even at a distance, we’re flummoxed when we find feathers upon dinosaur remnants and we’re forced to reevaluate forgone conclusions that defy the logical inferences of 10-minutes-past.
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Another interpretation of this is that the reason we are unable to predict these mutations is because we do not know the pilot wave function because we are not looking at evolution from a De Broglie-Bohm standpoint, which renders everything in the universe as
deterministic; if you know the pilot wave function, you know the exact position and velocity of any particle
not being observed.
So it is in nature; just because we cannot see the Pattern, doesn't mean that nature acts randomly. Rather, it means that nature is operating according to as-yet-unknown principles, following a pattern beyond our comprehension.
This is what I
must cling to as the pillars of reality and existence; without it, everything is relegated to chaos and nothing we do matters whatsoever beyond what it means to us on a selfish level. Perhaps the greatest clue to the fact that there is something beyond this universe is simply the fact that it follows such a complex tapestry of physical laws--
in a logical progression.
Order does not rise from entropy. Heat does not rise from a cold universe. These are the universal truths I have to believe to resist that despondent fear called existential nihilism.