The Problem with Christians

[Pat Mustard]

Can we agree that the DNA mutations are random? If not, what is the source of intelligence that guides them?

The mutations themselves are random, but the process of selection of the most successful mutations is not, because the mutations which survive are the ones which either better adapt the species to the prevailing environment or which do nothing. Plus you've got other factors within evolution such as recombination in species which propagate sexually, which are themselves not random (because sexual animals tend to choose their mates based on physical and mental attributes which allow them to best survive). Some parts of evolution are random, but the process as a whole isn't. And your second question is a sly attempt to shoehorn your god into a gap which really doesn't exist, pity you don't understand enough about biology to realise this.

You have to have faith that evolution happened the way you think it did.

No we don't. We know evolution happens, we* have observed it in nature, we* have induced it in the laboratory (bonus link). And we obviously exist as a species and individuals (proof: I am sat here on a bank holiday Monday typing a response to one of your idiotic comments). So, there is no faith needed to suppose that the obviously and trivially true is, in fact, true.

*I use the we here in species terms not personally including myself. Unlike you I make no lying claims to being a biologist or any other type of scientist.