For the record, natural selection is a highly nonrandom process that acts on the genetic variation produced by random mutation and genetic drift and results in those organisms with more adaptive traits differentially surviving and reproducing.

— John Allen Paulos Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up (2008)

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