The Role of Randomness in Evolution

There is staggering ignorance of what evolution is all about. Natural selection is quintessentially non-random, that's exactly what natural selection is. We're trying to escape from randomness. And natural selection is the only escape that anybody has ever suggested that will work. It strikes me, you know, I was thrilled that students, this wasn't a public high school,. Although it was a debate class. So at least I'm a little optimistic that they were reasonably educated on the subject. But how do we deal with adults, this minister? He's not going to go back to school. He's not gonna pay any attention to us.