Steve Shaw

Unpredictable doesn't mean random.

Er, I think you will find that it does. Look it up.

I dislike the word random to describe mutations because it communicates wholly the wrong idea about what's going on.

So what is going on?

It implies that they are somehow spontaneous and without cause.

Not without cause, but not deterministic either.

I'm saying that that message is highly questionable, and that we need a different way of characterising the way mutations arise.

Please provide one.

It's just the wrong word.

Seems to work fine.