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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

1)I definitely didnt say you or the guy is idiotic, I just think his statement is because he says in one breath "its not random" in the next he says "its random"

But you are right about cause and effect, nothing is random considering that a dice will fall based on real physical properties. However for the purposes of this discussion the word "random" should suffice.