Surely human intellect, and the deliberate application of design knowledge, can devise better mechanisms than the mindless, random process of evolution?

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In 2002, a test by Sandia labs in the US found that a similar dowsing rod device, called the Mole detector, did not work and performed "no better than a random selection process".

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The process seems random and difficult to view as a methodical process of search.

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That is when California's voters will decide whether or not to turn the task over to an independent Citizen Redistricting Commission, laboriously constructed so as to be balanced and independent by a process of screening and random selection.

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What is startling about it is the ownership of their process for creating the practices, and their collective intention to put a stop to random acts of senseless productivity.

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