10 Jun '16 10:49>
Originally posted by whodeyWhy do theists focus so much on the 'random chance' element of evolution yet ignore the fact that there are also non-random evolutionary mechanisms at work? - Sure, mutations may be random, but natural selection is like the opposite of random.
So what is your opinion of the article?
It would seem that "random chance" in evolution is but an illusion.
'To conceive of evolution as nothing more than blind chance and randomness is the most serious conceptual mistake one can make. Evolution does contain a component of chance, but there is far more to the process than that, and it is precisely the existence of the non-chance components that allows evolution to work. The process of evolution is driven by the engine of natural selection, a filter that extracts order out of chaos according to a fixed and non-random set of rules. It is for this reason that many of the most common creationist caricatures of evolution fail. Evolution is not like an explosion in a print shop producing a dictionary, a tornado in a junkyard producing a 747, or DNA in a blender producing a human being, because all of these lack a component of non-random selection.'
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/essays/why-evolution-isnt-chance/#sthash.Mr4hk4If.dpuf