[MD] Chance

[David M]

> [Krimel]
> > "Evolution is recklessly opportunistic: it favors any variation that
> provides a competitive advantage over other members of an organism's own
> population or over individuals of different species. For billions of years
> this process has automatically fueled what we call evolutionary progress. 
> No
> program controlled or directed this progression. It was the result of spur
> of the moment decisions of natural selection.

DM: Is everything a matter of competition? Is this metaphor always the best
one? Maybe variety is an explosion of excess. Without limits like DNA
to reduce excess and variety it seems that almost anything is possible.
Is it all a tale or winners and losers, or is it a tale or what seems 
valuable
and desirable and what does not? I mean, is this not all metaphor?