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No one says evolution is random. It is stochastic. I am not sure that “random” versus “unpredictable” is anything more than semantics anyway.

Randomness is an illusion. We simply do not yet understand the mathematics well enough to see a pattern, so we assign random events to chance.

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>>Randomness is an illusion. We simply do not yet understand the mathematics well enough to see a pattern, so we assign random events to chance.

Exactly — that is why stochastic is the proper name for the process.