Mutations power natural selection. Can god get in on that one?

Question

hey thanks for responding. My use of the word "power" was an attempt to be concise.

I will elaborate

Mutations are random as you put it. Natural Selection weeds out these useful ones from the non useful. If a useful one gives an advantage to the species thereby it will result in higher survival rates and/or better probability of procreation. The mutation that is seen as a random gives purpose to the natural selection. Is this coherent?

Answer 1

Mutations do not " power " natural selection, whatever that means. Mutation is random. ( look up statistical meaning of random ) All beneficial mutation does is provide the variation that natural selection works with. Mutation is not directed anymore than natural selection is. So, your question, " can god get in on that ", is incoherent. Unless you wish your " magic man " to be something like insertion or deletion errors in translation.

Answer 2

He could, if he wanted to alter his experiment, and change the control or variable, while looking at us, through his giant microscope...

Answer 3

It depends on what your view of god is. If you are like the ancient stoics, then God and Nature are one in the same, and the way God proves his existence or involves himself in the world is through the beauty of how life forms mature and evolve (ie natural selection).

Answer 4

Read "What Evolution Is" by Ernst Mayr. Evolution is so simple a chid can understand it. Ernst Mayer articulates  the principles clearly and concisely. Why ask questions when you are unfamiliar with the basic concepts of an idea. Read the book first and there will be no need to ask such meaningless questions.