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    Supports→A natural process can include scientific randomness and still be guided by God.

    It is possible for the whole natural order to be created and sustained by God even if it contains processes that are random in the scientific sense.

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    But what about the randomness that is a crucial part of the Darwinian story? The atheist might claim that because evolutionary theory posits that the process by which plants and animals have evolved is one that involves random genetic mutations, it cannot be guided, and thus God cannot have used evolutionary means to achieve his ends. However, this argument fails. It depends on an equivocation in what is meant by “random.” When scientists claim that genetic mutations are random, they do not mean

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