Re: Irreducible complexity analogsIsn't trial and error what

Steve Clark (ssclark@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Sun, 01 Dec 1996 19:20:51 -0600

At 11:52 AM 11/30/96 EST, Jim Bell wrote in response to Glenn:

>Your view of evolutionary trial and error is certainly not the sort of TE
>Terry Gray has explained. Are you saying that God, rather than directing
>change, is actually watching the mutations make errors to be selected?

Why not? Mutations really do occur, and if, as most of us here believe, God
sustains what He created, I guess He is watching the imperfections in the
creation called mutation, happen.

Steve
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