[snarks_when_bored]

"I'll grant you that the study of evolution is created by the mind of man (at least on this planet). But the fact of evolution, as Watson describes it, is most definitely not created by the mind of man (unless you wish to defend some form of subjective idealism or even solipsism)."

Who do you give credit for the "fact" of evolution??? Who established the boundaries and the parameters of what is called evolution???

You're asking the wrong question, I think. Asking for a 'who' in this context is mistaken. Not everything that happens happens as a result of some conscious, directing agency.

[Just mythoughts]

"You're asking the wrong question, I think. Asking for a 'who' in this context is mistaken. Not everything that happens happens as a result of some conscious, directing agency."

When did science become about the right or wrong question?

Whose law is it that "not everything that happens happens as a result of some conscious, directing agency".

Doesn't this mean that life is a lottery or a bad accident depending on the status of ones life???

[Ninian Dryhope]

"Not everything that happens happens as a result of some conscious, directing agency."

Your statement seems to admit that some things that happen, happen as a result of some conscious, directing agency. Or did you really mean that nothing happens as a result of some conscious, directing agency?