The other day I wrote this:

Of course, how much more fitting is it to see life as it is and explain it with non-personal causal and random factors!

Have you noticed that creationists almost always characterize evolutionary processes as random only? They never mention causal factors in evolutionary processes. And yet, these two, are part of the mix that explains how life can arise from non-life, and how life can grow more complex.

Of course, evolutionists, too, stress random factors. Why? Is the truly random key? Well, yes and no. In part, they fix upon random factors because such factors most dramatically fly in the face of teleological processes. And they want, as much as possible, to avoid any such taint. Cause-and-effect seems too teleological for some. And so it's shunned.

This is a mistake. The random factors important to natural selection are random in various limited ways, and must be understood in terms of causality to grasp the full nature of those processes.

And remember: sexual selection is not very random at all, not from individual actors' points of view, anyway.

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