Re: ASA, ID, Blogs and my observations

Alan wrote:
>Gould (I think) said that if you were to run the universe over again we would be sure not to appear.  This is consistent with the once >proposed definition of evolution from E. Scott that E was undirected, unplanned, ungoverned...  Evolution is thought of as truly >contingent and in some way random.  Walter Alverez (sp) once said that "every once in a while the earth has a very bad day" in >reference to the KT asteroid.

One of the guys Gould spotlighted in his book Wonderful Life was Simon Conway Morris. Conway Morris is an expert on the cambrian exlosion. He believes that he has evidence for the position that if you run the universe over again, you would get the same or nearly the same thing back. He points out that life over and over solves the same problem independently with a very similar solution.