[Mylo]

You said:

The only point of disagreement is this:

"It all happened by accident."
"It happened the way it did because God wanted it to."

You set up the dichotomy of either it "happened by accident" or "because God wanted it to". When I said that the mechanism of mutation (and atomic formation) is random, not accidental, you said it was a distinction without a difference.

I say there is a WORLD of difference; and if one thinks that a random mechanism of evolution presupposes the nonexistence of God; one must admit that the random mechanism of atomic formation must also.

[dsc]

Where you went with that is so far removed from what I intended that I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to answer.

For me, the answer to this...

"It all happened by accident."
"It happened the way it did because God wanted it to."

...is not to be found in any real or apparent randomness in the natural world.

I'm surprised to hear that you inferred that I think a random mechanism of evolution presupposes the nonexistence of God. Some people think so; I'm not one of them.

By the way, you have still to offer a meaningful explanation of the difference between a given photon randomly striking a given cell in a given living thing at a given instant, and the same thing happening accidentally.