Dumb Luck and Jellyfish Eyes

It is widely believed that evolutionary theory teaches that it is simply a matter of dumb luck that the universe ended up producing intelligent human life, and that if we re-played ‘the tape of life’ a million times it is unlikely that anything like homo sapiens would ever emerge again. Some people, like the eminent evolutionary biologist and popular science writer Stephen J. Gould, have claimed this on the basis of paleontological findings… Read More