Re: [asa] Random and design

It is important to remember how the term random is being used in
Darwinian theory. All it states is that mutations do not
preferentially arise beneficial to the organism. In other words, a
lack of correlation between mutations arising and the environment. Of
course, if God were to intervene, how would we be able to detect
this? Because of some correlation between the mutation and God's
actions? But we do not have an independent way to test for this, thus
for us, by all scientific standards, this event would appear to be
random.

On Nov 15, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Randy Isaac wrote:

> But I do struggle with the randomness question. I've said that
> before and I haven't resolved it yet. I would state it a little
> differently than Gage but I do think that is the core problem. We
> often glibly say that scientific randomness does not preclude
> divine guidance. But wouldn't a system subject to supernatural
> guidance of any kind show, in some small way, a physical deviation
> from randomness? If not, then is there any significance to the
> divine guidance?
>

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Received on Wed Nov 15 21:59:36 2006