Reason  wrote or quoted:

> Since there is no "forwards" in evolutionary terms, it's a difficult 
> question to answer.  If you mean "forwards" to mean more
complexity, then it 
> is generally evident in the fossil record that such steps do occur.  If an 
> organism becomes more survivable with less complexity, it may in fact be a 
> step forward.  It depends only on whether a simpler organism is more likely 
> to survive and reproduce, nothing more.  "Direction" is a
human attribution 
> to a directionless process. 

Evolution directionless?

That's a pretty ridiculous idea :-|

It takes a *very* odd perspective to view life as "directionless".

Life is about as directional as an explosion - i.e. it's a *highly*
directional process - and it doesn't take much more than a casual
glance at the history of life on the planet to see that.
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