Susan (from superb website)
>"However, mutations appear to be spontaneous in most instances. That does
>not mean that they
> occur without cause but, rather, that the specific cause is almost always
>unknown." It seemed like the *true* agnostic position.
Bertvan:
So we can on occasions agree, Susan. Cause unknown! (Might or might not be
design.) Could even be God. The only evolution I ever questioned was "a
gradual accumulation of micro evolution, small random mutations, without
design or purpose, creating complexity by natural selection". If the cause
is unknown, no one knows whether or not variations are random. No one knows
whether the "watchmaker" was blind or whether he knew exactly what he was
doing. If the variations are not random, they have no need for natural
selection. They work the first time they appear. I don't think ID people
have any quarrel with "unknowns".
Now all we have to do is get the "random mutation" people to agree.
Bertvan
http://members.aol.com/bertvan
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