[js1138]

Mutations may or may not be random. Selection is what shapes populations, and selection is not random.

[Valpal1]

Selection is not random in breedstock either, yet man has never created a new species in thousands of years of selective breeding and intentional exploitation of random mutations.

So unintentional nature can acheive what intentional man can not?

[Southack]

"Mutations may or may not be random. Selection is what shapes populations, and selection is not random."

Selection merely culls a population. Selection is not in dispute. Whether a mutation is random (e.g. Evolutionary) or due to some level of outside bias (e.g. Intelligent Design), the resultant species/hybrid still is subject to Selection.

There is no controversy regarding Selection.

The controversy surrounds the mutations (random or biased).