how come the environment in evolution 'thinks'?

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Mark M

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in this theory, some random mutant forms are selected over other mutant forms and the forms of their parents, statistically because of changing environmental conditions. this random selection leads to progressively more complex life forms. how did the environment know to create just the right conditions for this? might not the environment have changed to favor simpler life forms? this environment seems to me to have had a predetermined agenda
 
Excepting a few breeding programmes initiated by humans, the environment does not know anything. It just is what it is, following the laws of physics, biology, and chemistry. Those randomly mutated creatures which happen to thrive in it are able to pass their genes to the next generation, and so on until their environmental luck runs out. The whole process is completely impersonal.
 
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