Reply #2: Evolution has both random and very nonrandom processes [View All]

[HereSince1628]

Natural selection, which HAS been demonstrated in both the laboratory and in natural settings, isn't random at all.

The random issues are things like mutations, cross-over events, and segregation of chromosomes and all of these have been demonstrated in the laboratory and in natural settings--some of them by a Catholic Abbott.

As a defender of the Faith Ratzo is a tool of archaic claims. He even thinks LIFE begins at conception...in his world sperm and egg are not alive and human beings do not have haploid and diploid stages in our life cycle.

Such ideological preferences simply must be dismissed as intentional obfuscation of the utterly obvious.

LIFE began on this planet many billions of years ago it's been passed down cell by cell in unbroken chains of life ever since. Along the way Life has evolved from precursors that used the same genetic material and the same mechanisms for expressing genetic material. Moreover, peaks in the rate of change of species richness suggest that creation happened not once but continuously with at least 4 peaks in it's rate over the past billion years or so.

We have no evidence of a creators plans or any indication of his/hers/their sculpturing tools and we don't need it/them to understand the diversity of life on this little planet.