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To: betty boop
A God that doesn't have control of “random” processes and include such in HIS ways is neither the God of Nature or the God of the Bible.

The first time a humans unique DNA structure was formed was when their parents DNA was randomly shuffled together.

Radio-atomic decay is calculated as a chance that an atom will randomly spit out some radiation.

Our immune system antibodies can bind to any foreign 3-D structure because they randomly shuffled the DNA that codes for their variable regions to “explore” almost all possible combinations (self binding ones are eliminated).

Obviously what we see as “random” is everywhere we care to look in the universe and part and parcel of the reality that God created.

Prov 16:33 “The dice are cast into the lap, but every result is from the Lord”

38 posted on 10/29/2010 2:21:20 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: allmendream; Alamo-Girl; OldNavyVet; Diamond; xzins; Quix; r9etb; TXnMA; MHGinTN; spirited irish
A God that doesn't have control of “random” processes and include such in HIS ways is neither the God of Nature or the God of the Bible.

The first time a human's unique DNA structure was formed was when their parents' DNA was randomly shuffled together.

Well I certainly agree with your first statement, allmendream! But what is this "random shuffling" of the parents' DNA? Do not the parents choose each other (i.e., male–female bonding, leading them to mate) before they have offspring?

Can a choice be classified as a random phenomenon?

Are you arguing that mating behavior is random — "haphazard, purposeless" — at the parents' level, because choice implies free will, and free will is an illusion? That procreation is an utterly "blind," mechanistic, deterministic process in nature? That the DNA inheritance an offspring receives is purely a matter of accident (i.e., of "random shuffling")?

77 posted on 11/01/2010 11:16:32 AM PDT by betty boop (Seek truth and beauty together; you will never find them apart. — F. M. Cornford)
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