> As far as Life, I'm in agreement with Dick in that any evolutionary changes are the result of chance and the math concerning the degree of success at passing heritable traits to the next generation.

Seems like an oversimplification to me. Shapiro states:

> Revelations from genomic analysis oblige us to reconsider the simplifying assumptions made in the past two centuries about the nature of evolutionary variation. Rather than single gene traits, we recognize that all phenotypes involve coordinated activity by multiple interacting cell molecules.

> Genomics has modernized our understanding of the evolutionary process. Rather than viewing genome evolution as a happenstance series of copying errors, we are now in a position to study it as a complex biological process of active self-modification.

Shapiro, James A. "Nothing in Evolution Makes Sense Except in the Light of Genomics: Read–Write Genome Evolution as an Active Biological Process." (2016)

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