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To: allmendream

“Creationists have a huge blind spot about randomness based upon ignorance of the Bible.”

Not in my experience they don’t.

“Evolution happens via natural selection of genetic variation. Genetic variation is created via random errors in copying DNA.”

Yes of course, pretty much everyone understands that, I hope.

“It is the Bible, not science, that makes the case that God controls random events.”

Yes, and that is exactly where the problem of incompatibility comes in. The theory of evolution, and naturalistic science as a whole, doesn’t allow any room for God controlling random events. They can’t ascribe supernatural causes to anything, random or not. So, if you say that God controls the random mutations, then you do not believe in the standard theory of Evolution.


95 posted on 02/08/2013 1:49:54 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
As a scientist I have no problem with acknowledging that radioactive decay is random, that mutations are random, that quantum mechanics are probabilistic/random.

As a Christian I have no problem with acknowledging that God is in control of random events - something that creationists have a very hard time acknowledging - as you seem to be - it is a huge blind spot based upon ignorance of the Bible.

You also seem to have a huge blind spot in that one can accept a scientific theory and have faith in God, without that scientific theory ascribing any action to supernatural causation.

Newton didn't ascribe supernatural causation to Gravity - yet he knew that it all unfolded according to God's plan.

One need not have faith that God created the law of universal gravitational attraction of mass to be a scientist who knows understands and utilizes the theory.

Similarly one need not have faith that God is in control of random events in order to be a scientist who knows understand and utilizes the theory of evolution.

96 posted on 02/08/2013 2:13:03 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: Boogieman
God controls random events

???

A random event is not controlled. It is random, and does not occur as part of a plan.

105 posted on 02/09/2013 12:10:20 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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