From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> Water flows downhill, sometimes if the hill isn't very steep it seems to
> meander but it has a direction, heat rises, why do you guys have this
> problem with evolution having a direction?
>
> Do you honestly believe if you surveyed 1000 planets teaming with life that
> you would find one where life started out with intelligence and evolved into
> simpler instinct driven life forms without some huge outside influence
> wiping out most of the life on the planet?
>
> I mean come on guys, meteors can change the direction of water or heat as
> well, leave evolution alone undisturbed and it has a very obvious direction.
> The meandering path it takes may not look the same on any 2 planets just
> like 2 rivers don't look the same but all rivers flow downhill..

Hey Geo - It's normal to do a bunch of reading on a topic before writing
about it! (well, maybe not here?)

Re your point - all this is quite interesting, but I'm not going to repeat
the stuff I wrote last time.

John

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