Biology and randomness and God
In evolutionary biology, what does random mean? Though evolution is believed
to have started by chance it is not kept going by chance. The pattern came
about by chance and so chance does not need to and cannot direct evolution.
The pattern is strictly speaking directing nothing - a snowflake is just
what it is, something that looks designed but is not. So randomness then is
largely not about chance but means that changes happen regardless of whether
they are useful to the creature or not. The changes have resulted in a
pattern that is useful for us now but may not be in a thousand years when
the pattern makes us so advanced that we prove it is not real advancement
when we blow ourselves into atoms in a nuclear conflagration.
Believers in God say that God not chance rigged it so that the pattern would
appear. Unbelievers say the pattern was created by chance but is not a pile
of chances itself. These views are incompatible. One has intention and the
other does not.
Can we choose one or the other? If so then God is not important. God is not
God. God to be God cannot be a menu item.
Religion answers that God as an intelligent being is the only answer for
random generates only disorder.
It is not true that chance creates only what we would see as useless chaos.
It can cause a framework.
If God is directing evolution then we should speak of intention. Intentional
guidance of evolution means evolution has nothing to do with chance. It
means that evolution is about intention and it is intention we should be
dwelling on. Evolution ceases to be a theory but a mere symptom of
intention. Intention becomes the real theory. Thus science holds that
luck and the unintended is what started evolution off and also what caused
it to go into enough order to produce the many creatures and plants that
thrive on earth.