Mike's discussion of uncaused causes

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@rsewell

Would you take the position that no mutations are random? Never in nature has so much as one mutation ever been random? Is cancer?

Jesus walked on the chaotic sea… sometimes mutations are random and sometimes they may not be… Tremper Longman has touched on this subject and I wish I paid better attention

@rsewell

If some are random, what would distinguish random from non-random mutations? Is there a test?

I would liken it to the empirical impossibility of distinguishing between an event that just happens, and an event that is the immediate effect of something that doesn’t happen

@rsewell

But if quantum tunneling is statistically random, isn’t the consequential mutation random?

Statistically random, and yet it may account for the beginning of the universe and origin of life… yet it is also statistically insignificant or simply background noise… but it need not be