apostate you almost had that totally corrrect,

I guess if you want to try to take into account every variable available to interact with all those in the particular event of a cat and a mouse then sure on some atomic level its predictable, but as i've said before, even the position and simultaniously the speed of an electron is not predictable with the methods we have today. There is already randomness in the equation there. Evolution is not predictable. We dont know if a volcanic eruption is going to kill of everything but the platapus. We tend to look back at things and say yes, this species survived because it was better than the others. You can't look at the present and say this species is just the best. NO, it just happens to be the best for this particular environment, and thats what's important, as the environment changes, so does our preception of what 'best' is changes.