(Continued from above.) This leaves us with the understanding of what "random" really means. "Random" simply means that we don't know the cause. As far as we know, the cause could have been this, or it could have been that. Since we don't know, why don't we say it that way. We don't know that the tree of life chart is anywhere near correct or not. This means that evolution is as it always has been >>> something we don't know anything at all about.

Evolution continues to fail in many points, but two of them are major. These point revolve around the word "random." "Random" does not mean "spontaneous." There is nothing that we know of in the universe that rises spontaneously, all by itself, without one or more causes. Sometimes we know the cause, and sometimes we don't. True spontaneity doesn't even make sense in physics. (Continued below.)