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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
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Originally Posted by aaronblood
Actually, it was a definition I had from a high school biology teacher...
The diversity of life on earth is the outcome of evolution: an unsupervised, impersonal, unpredictable and natural process of temporal descent with genetic modification that is affected by natural selection, chance, historical contingencies and changing environments.
It specifically states an unsupervised, impersonal and natural process based on chance.
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The teacher was quoting it from the 1995 National Association of Biology Teachers position on teaching evolution. I'm at least pleased to see that since then it has been slightly revised, and the "unsupervised" part was removed... That's at least good.