Stuff Happens Law (SHL)

the natural law that the Law of Natural Selection reduces to. When a scientist says “stuff happens,” he or she basically gives up, abandoning any attempt at scientific explanation. The SHL is the antithesis of science’s goal to understand the world, but since mutation and natural selection (the elements of neo-Darwinian theory) are both unguided and random, they reduce to the SHL. Source: 9/22/09; for explanation of how the SHL can be defended as scientific, see the 9/15/08 commentary.