The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132437   Message #3000072
Posted By: Steve Shaw
05-Oct-10 - 09:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: True Test of an Atheist
Subject: RE: BS: True Test of an Atheist
Unpredictable doesn't mean random. I dislike the word random to describe mutations because it communicates wholly the wrong idea about what's going on. It implies that they are somehow spontaneous and without cause. I'm saying that that message is highly questionable, and that we need a different way of characterising the way mutations arise. It's just the wrong word.