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Fortuitous

Fortuitous

1. Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms. It was from causes seemingly fortuitous . . . That all the mighty effects of the reformation flowed. (Robertson) So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole. (Hazlitt)

2. Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.

Synonym: accidental, casual, contingent, incidental. See accidental.

Fortuitously, Fortuitousness.

Origin: L. Fortuitus; akin to forte, adv, by chance, prop. Abl. Of fors, fortis, chance. See Fortune.


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Origin of life

... is made to explain everything only in terms of materialistic processes. Natural selection works by increased reproductive success of those with fortuitous favorable mutations. The possibility that this is biologically impossible and that ID might be required is never entertained. Also there ...

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