“The Problem of Evil” in atheism and in Islam

[Chili]

Selective breeding is where desired qualities are identified first. So the ideal exists in the mind of the breeder before he selects the best representation he finds for his breeding program.

And those traits are expressed through specific mutations.

The same is true with plants in which a breeding program often takes place in confined spaces as patent right adds ownership to this. From there seeds are taken and selective often replicated trials are done to find the best performers within.

So, specific mutations are selected and artificially given greater access to the gene pool. How is it that this excludes mutations, again?

So here now we have selection in addition to selective breeding to reach distinction pertaining only to a desired quality, just yet. This so is still far removed from a mutation that has its own non-cause to be.

Mutations can be deliberately selected, that doesn't make them not mutations. The term doesn't attest to the cause of the concept too, just change in genetics.

For sure not, and that is why red potatoes are a bonus, let's say, and are not the result of a breeding program, as you say. I have no problem with that and do agree that mutations exist, and likely are the reason why different species are formed. This would be outside the domain of God, I agree, if God is limited to the insider of all that is and all that exists, wherefore then I hold that God can be no greater than me for me.

I think where we are different is that I hold the Intelligent Design to exist inside the species and there is what is needed for us to survive and compete to survive in an ever changing socio-bio environment in which we live.