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>Now, it would be nice if there were a lesson in this list of errors that might help scientists do better in the future. But the whole history of science shows that such errors are actually unavoidable. There is a lesson, though, based on what the mistakes on this list have in common: They’re all on a list of errors now known to be errors. Science, unlike certain political philosophies and personality cults, corrects its mistakes. That’s the lesson, and that’s why respecting science is so important to avoiding errors in other realms of life.

Yes "respect science" experts say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimz-PZMjjs

>>Now, it would be nice if there were a lesson in this list of errors that might help scientists do better in the future. But the whole history of science shows that such errors are actually unavoidable. There is a lesson, though, based on what the mistakes on this list have in common: They’re all on a list of errors now known to be errors. Science, unlike certain political philosophies and personality cults, corrects its mistakes. That’s the lesson, and **that’s why respecting science** is so important to avoiding errors in other realms of life. Yes "respect science" experts say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimz-PZMjjs

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Elevators, air con, and underfloor heating, those structures aren't the result of randomness

Now regarding evolution... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonoscorpius

>Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis (from Latin pulmonis scorpius, 'lung scorpion') is an extinct species of scorpion[1] that lived during the Viséan and Serpukhovian ages of the Carboniferous period, around 336.0 – 326.4 million years ago.[2]

Are you ready for a breathtaking picture of that extinct animal? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/20210116_Pulmonoscorpius_kirktonensis.png

Yeah

That's a scorpion

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structures aren't the result of randomness

i didn't say there were, the point is that everything evolves

That's a scorpion

"a large, fragmentary specimen is estimated to have been 700 mm (28 inches) long when alive" so, just like a modern one then...

Anomalocaris, it's just a shrimp...

species: a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding

one of that species died, why is this relevant?

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The fact that "everything evolves" (quotes because well, some didn't evolve much, obviously...) doesn't prove that life is simply the end result of sheer randomness

I don't think the scorpion will evolve into something entirely different than what it is and has pretty much always been, maybe it will shrink in size eventually, big deal

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I don't think the scorpion will evolve into something entirely different than what it is and has pretty much always been

But that's exactly how evolution works: keep changing until optimum output is achieved. If the input variables change (which they won't, because it lives in a desert and eats bugs), then mutations will produce a change.

The fact that "everything evolves" doesn't prove that life is simply the end result of sheer randomness

well we have a whole trail of "mutations" going from soup to monkey, so yes, we do kinda have proof that soup produces life because we can point to all the incremental changes in the fossil record

it's this process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

like take an RNA virus, the mutation rates are much higher as there is not the same correction mechanisms, randomness is built in. viruses are relatively simple and we can currently create new ones by inserting new stands in their RNA and growing it inside a cell. some viruses don't actually reproduce by themselves, they infect another virus and that does the reproduction for them. So it's hard to define 'life' as something that reproduces, so you could argue that some viruses aren't really living things