There isn’t enough time for a random walk evolution to result in the structure we see. It’s more complicated than that.
It seems the universe in the form of humans was meant to contemplate itself.
It seems the universe in the form of humans was meant to contemplate itself.
I would just say its a whole lot of trouble to get humans to do something they aren't even doing!
So the argument pretty much turns into "my feelings" vs. Occam's Razor.
For what it’s worth, the only empirical macroevolution we’ve done, from domestication, to Monte Carlo simulations, to genetic algorithms, to LLM training, is all goal directed.
Yes...though I'd say that the teleological folks have emotional reasons to judge an ever-so-specific deity (who they already believe in) to be a conveniently minimal hypothesis. Which is a good example of a usually-necessary heuristic - pushing complexity, costs, unknowns, and other unhappy things far enough away (in real or metaphorical space/time) that you don't have to worry about them now.
> FWIW, the only empirical...
All the budget requests for sextillions of organisms, simulated for billions of years, were rejected. So, unfortunately, some large corners had to be cut...
As for the "snacks" ... :)