[extropy-chat] Note on "Random (effects without a cause)" comment

[Damien Broderick]

At 10:00 PM 11/24/2005 -0500, Jeff Medina wrote:

>please note that no "random mutation" in
>evolution is acausal or "an effect without a cause." They are
>mutations *without a known cause* (in most cases) and *without a goal
>or purpose*. This is very different

Indeed it is, and thanks for spelling this out. I would have done so, but 
I've got a Thanksgiving cold and couldn't be bothered.

Damien Broderick