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This statement is idiotic. In the first statement he says evolution is not random at all and in the second sentence he says that "...variation due to sexual reproduction may be random

So that is ridiculous, and I see it in both camps, for evolution AND creation. The alleged process is neither random nor directed, it is both. So creationists are entirely correct when we say that genetic information arises by chance. It indeed arises by chance mutation. It is selected by other processes.

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It's not idiotic. Ask yourself this, what causes a mutation? An error of some kind, right? Are errors random? If something is damaged they are the result of the damaging factor, if there has been made a 'mistake' of some kind in any of the processes it could appear as if 'random'. However if something has a cause it is not random, if it has a cause which get's influenced by an awful lot of factors then it would be more accurate to say it's random. If something ultimately happens to be unpredictable, I'd say it's random. It's not a black and white world.

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