Your basic premise is wrong. Random events do happen at the sub-atomic level. Particles are emitted with no cause or pattern and travel off in unpredictable directions.
And this matters. Because these subatomic random events cause effects at larger levels. Mutation, for example, happens when those subatomic particles strike the molecules in DNA. Your genes are altered and the next thing you know your offspring are locked in battle with Magneto. Or they develop the ability to digest cellulose. It’s a crap shoot.
Is this the reverse psychology version of fighting ignorance? Present an apparently pro-deity argument that is so absurdly ridiculous that people find themselves compelled to become atheists?
No, it wouldn’t. A collective of supernatural beings acting in a purely deterministic way would also be a solution to that particular puzzle. You could also posit a completely random process which happens upon a “locked” nonrandom or random-by-parts paradigm. At the most basic alternative, we can posit two supernatural entities with “free will”.
Now, granted, I don’t know that you’re Christian, but I can offer similar examples for any particular spiritual entity you want to discuss.
Where did the supernatural entity come from?
Is it easier or harder for there to be just the universe, or both the universe and supernatural entities?
Why did He create a universe that is 99.999999% empty space, and come up with such a roundabout method as evolution for creating creatures, when he has the powers of creation and his goal is to generate humans and impose moral guidelines on them?
Why does the creator of everything and guider of evolution care so much about the presence or lack thereof, of foreskin?
As a star undergoes fusion, converting hydrogen into heavier elements, is it really deterministic where those elements end up and what directions the gamma particles fly and such?
I don’t think stochastic processes are considered magic by scientists. To most people, nuclear decay probably isn’t convincing evidence of Jesus Christ turning water into wine. Moreover, I find this sort of argument fairly weak. Maybe there’s a fancy Latin term for it, but it’s the kind that says the universe lacks a characteristic and only God can provide that characteristic. It’s never explained why God can do what the universe supposedly can’t. For example, the common argument that the universe can’t be timeless and without cause, but God can be.
Free will doesn’t seem a useful concept in religious debates, since both theists and atheists take mixed positions. Some religions focus on the importance of human’s free choice, others don’t and claim there’s predestination of the elect, or that God already knows the future.
Are you ready yet to reveal what religion you are referring to, Calico Jack(previously asked, and unanswered, in a previous thread)? If not, would you mind if we assume that you are referring to Satanism?
Even if (contrary to our understanding of quantum mechanics) true randomness didn’t exist, pseudorandomness is plenty “random enough” for purposes of evolution. You accept that it’s possible to roll dice, right? And even though how the dice land depends on the precise angle and momentum with which they’re thrown, and their initial orientation, and so on, and could in principle be calculated by a very good computer, for practical purposes, they’re random enough for Vegas to make tons of money. Well, mutations are random enough for evolution to work, too.
The syntax here is a little unclear, and I’m not really sure whether you’re saying that the weather etc are random or not. Also, are you under the impression that evolution primarily happens by particular animals choosing to couple with the ‘correct’ mate, and their offspring changing to be ever closer to humans?
So does the shuffling of a deck of cards, but that is sufficiently random to support a multi-billion dollar gambling industry.
There are a lot more DNA base pairs in a typical mammal than there are cards in a deck. The mutations don’t have to be six-sigma random. They just have to be widely distributed over all the possibilities – exactly like a shuffled deck of cards.