re: #176 Jimmah

I remember one time Dawkins put in a nutshell, saying something along the lines that natural selection is a sieve that drives systems towards outcomes that are on the face of it statistically improbable.

And that is exactly the point. The confusion comes from misunderstanding what is actually possible given the constraints of the system.

If a mutation kills, then it is out of the picture. If a certain protein would arise from a certain starting point through say 5 mutations, but the first mutation killed, then all things that might arise from subsequent mutations don’t happen and can’t happen.