Re: Grand Revelations

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Don Smith wrote:

> > To believe in evolution and to believe that evolution is "accidental"
> > are two different things, I think.
>
> And just to be super-clear, here: we're talking about stellar evolution,
> which has absolutely nothing to do with biological evolution, which is a
> whole different can of worms I'd rather not open right now.  This is
> just about stars.  So let's not get side-tracked into biology.

Agreed.  FWIW, I knew you were referring to stars and not to biology, but
the question of "accidents" could be applied to either form of evolution.  
I don't think a statement against "cosmic accidents" has to be interpreted
as a statement against evolution in any of its forms -- in fact, it never
even occurred to me to interpret the phrase that way.  "Evolution" to me
simply means change over time; it might be accidental, it might not.

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