Randomness in evolution

@ARus – There will be naysayers* that disallow for the existence of God, of course, and others that disallow the possibility of his providential intervention, not accepting the empirical evidence and the explicit meaning induced by the circumstance(s). So since God is timeless (or omnitemporal, ‘timeful’), there is no such thing as true randomness and that God is sovereign even over so-called random mutations. A Christian molecular biologist once told me,

…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.

That was one of the things that helped me accept evolutionary science, along with a few other factors. Losing a kidney was one of those, which I cover in a short detailed account here: Nephrectomy.

One of my favorite accounts of God’s providence is right here at BioLogos: Maggie’s testimony.

It is a wonderful mystery how God can orchestrate time and space – and timing and placing – to the benefit of his children, but the Bible is replete with such accounts, OT and New, and there are manifold in the last two millennia, as well.

Another one is here at BioLogos, too: My Turkish translator experience.

 


*Some will say that other religions have accounts similar to the ones listed here, but I would contend not so complex and as concatenated or nested.