@plotinus_enjoyer @epictittus @patris @judgedread Calling evolution "random chance" or assuming is a purely from mutations are both common misconceptions. Fact is most people don't know 💩 about genetics and even less about the theory of evolution. Random chance is a mechanism, but it's usually passive behind the scenes. No creature suddenly was born with super strength and dominated all the others because its mom was nesting near a uranium ore deposit. Even if you take a micro evolution or simple adaptive natural selection approach, you should look at how traits are packaged. It is never "a la carte"— you get long feathers coupled with blue spots coupled with an extra long middle toe coupled with a malformed metabolic enzyme coupled with a fifteen other things. Winning situations come about when one of those things is advantageous to the organism's present environment. Most of the time it's just "educated guesses" to piece together things like fossil records and such. DNA doesn't survive long enough to prove or disprove this either.