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To: allmendream

Indeed it does. However, the intention of this passage is to communicate that there is no such thing as a random event. Even the roll of dice are managed by God. Thus the contention of evolutionists that all processes involved in natural selection are undirected and wholly “accidental” flies in the face of the passage you quote.


52 posted on 01/27/2009 11:38:30 AM PST by Dutchboy88
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To: Dutchboy88
No it doesn't. We observe mutations occur randomly, just as we observe that dice roll randomly.

Writing a book on gambling probabilities one must assume a random distribution and not tell your reader “if God wants you to win you will win”; you have to give them the odds of them winning, as they cannot know the mind of God.

Similarly when discussing biology and mutations, we find a probabilistic distribution of mutations. That is what we observe. Scientists cannot know the mind of God and say “this particular mutation is the one that God wanted”, we can only determine the distribution of mutations and the differential reproductive success that different variations will have.

55 posted on 01/27/2009 11:45:34 AM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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