Forgetting the meaningless evaluation: why is life not a random, chance event aided by the process of natural selection?
RICHARD: As both the word random that which is haphazard [occurring, put together, etc., casually or without design] or without definite aim or purpose (Oxford Dictionary) and the word chance the absence of design or discoverable cause; an event that is without apparent cause or unexpected; a casual circumstance; an accident (Oxford Dictionary) more or less revolve around meaninglessness and purposelessness it is well-nigh impossible to forget that evaluation as what you are asking, in effect, is why life is not a meaningless/ purposeless event. Be that as it may … life is not a haphazard/ casual and causeless/ accidental event because, given the situation and circumstances conducive to same, it is inevitable that otherwise inanimate matter be animate. RESPONDENT: True. RICHARD: Speaking of the situation and circumstances conducive to life: the discovery late last century of microbes known as archaea, in and around out-gassing deep-ocean vents where no photosynthesis whatsoever can t
