Reply #21: Evolution is not random, or anything like random.

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It is true that it was once thought to be all driven by "chance mutations", but that was chucked overboard some time ago, it's much more complicated and interesting than that. But that doesn't mean you have to have some deus ex machina to run things either.

If he wants to believe in a deity let him, just don't confuse that with evolution or anything else based on observation. If you want to do that, then it's all about faith, so skip the pseudo-rational bullshit, you are just munging your faith by doing all that rationalizing anyway.