Your little exchange makes my earlier point very well: evolutionary ideologues (who use Darwinism as an argument-from-no-design to bash theism) need the randomness to be of the character of that in Diamond's parody for their arguments to fly.
The success of "genetic programming" in which a stochastic search of a designedly limited range of possibilities with a pre-designed standard of fitness suggests by analogy that a stochastic search of a law-constrained system of possibilities could well be the right form for a theory. Of course, that won't do to bainsh the law-maker as some would like. It would, however, be very good science.
Actually, I think even more fitting to a stochastic methodology (and certainly funnier) were the suggestions proffered before mine that hunble throw a floppy disk into a swimming pool or bake it in the sun.
Cordially,