Symphony by accident

I was at the concert hall the other night when suddenly, and entirely by accident, the sound of a Beethoven symphony rang through the hall.

• The violinists were using their bows to cause random vibrations of the strings;
• the flautists were blowing random air movements to their instruments;
• the trumpeters were causing random vibrations of their lips on the mouthpiece;
• the drummer was generating random vibrations on the drum.

Quite obviously, using the same reasoning as Bolder-dash in Is it an Accident?, that there was music was a complete accident.

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Jesus was a liberal hippie

I'm not sure if this is settled. Actually, I'm not even sure that the terminology is settled.As far as I know, it is combinations of genes that are most important. Traits may depend on many genes. The mutations add variation to the population. Then the filter of natural selection acts on that variation.My example of music was admittedly an extreme case, intended for emphasis. But the point is that you have randomness that is fed into a filter. In our normal way of talking, we don't use "accident" when there is a directional filter.

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Jesus was a liberal hippie

Mutation produces the variation. However, it is biological reproduction that pumps that variation into the filter. There's lots of force in that "pumping".

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Jesus was a liberal hippie

Indeed, the evidence from quantum physics is that everything is accidental in the Bolder-dash sense of "accident."

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Jesus was a liberal hippie

I fixed it for you.

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Jesus was a liberal hippie