{"id":122,"date":"2011-04-27T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/the-non-randomness-of-evolution\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T22:48:00","slug":"the-non-randomness-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/the-non-randomness-of-evolution.html","title":{"rendered":"The Non-Randomness of Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here\u2019s another BioLogos video, addressing the notion that evolution is \u201crandom,\u201d and featuring a range of scholars from Sean Carroll, the biologist working in evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo), to John Walton, known for his work on Genesis 1. HT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2018&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tgdarkly%2FfVpC+%28Through+a+Glass+Darkly%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Opderbeck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2730674497987699652?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s another BioLogos video, addressing the notion that evolution is \u201crandom,\u201d and featuring a range of scholars from Sean Carroll, the biologist working in evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo), to John Walton, known for his work on Genesis 1. 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