He could if he wanted it that way, right? Think carefully before you answer that one.
Are *you* suggesting that an omnipotent, omniscient being would even bother creating something that was, from his perspective, fore-ordained in every single detail? How boring. Just imagining it would be the same for him. And where in the heck is free will in that (his, *or* ours)?
Are you limiting an omnipotent being by refusing to allow the possibility that he might want to make a system that doesn't bore him to tears, by crafting it in a way that he doesn't craft every last detail of it -- that can delight him with its surprises and ability to produce results he didn't script in advance? (How can an omniscient being be surprised, you ask? By choosing not to "peek at the ending" of a process that he crafts to run on its own in undeterministic ways.)
Your notion of ominipotence is a very small one.
Did God create probability waves?
No. God creates a mechanism whose outcome man cannot predict. Hence, to scientists it is chance. To God, it is is not.
When scientists say random mutations help produce evolution, they mean it is random from man's point of view.
Well, we now have a "mutant topic"--this would be a nice segue to "free will" vs. "determinism".
We will see how well this conversational genotype survives in this thread...
Cheers!
Full Disclosure: Was it design or chance that I posted this remark, and helped a new topic on its way? Yes, I saw the thread, read, and posted on purpose: but if the cat had come by five minutes earlier, I'd have missed this thread entirely...