(Beyond cosmic rays providentially altering DNA and embryonic development, there doesn’t appear to have been any mention of epigenetic change here.) The Christians arguing here for some kind of capital ‘I’ ID and irreducible complexity and any other ‘gap’ are only arguing from incredulity as far as I can tell.
“…the most common mutations, transitions, are not really ‘copying errors,’ because the keto-enol transition of the base is driving them and the polymerase is working correctly. So if you’d like, that can be seen as providence more than chance.”
– a Christian Molecular Biologist
Not having accepted evolutionary science since youth and YECism, and having endorsed OEC (old-earth creationism) for a long time (decades), that statement was highly influential in the change in my thinking (another was my nephrectomy not a very long time earlier). I’m okay with God being sovereign over abiogenesis as well, with no exceptions to the natural order required – all laws intact, just exceptional and extraordinary timing and placing. Kinda like the same person winning five independent lotteries and being the only one to have bought any tickets, and only one ticket in each, right? (I won’t tag those who know the rhetorical question is directed to them, although I started to for one of you. ; - )