That is staggering ignorance of what evolutionary science is about; if they think that’s what evolutionists believe, no wonder they’re sceptical of it.

How can a civilised country have adult people in positions of leadership who know so stunningly little about the leading biological concept? You said recently that design was not the only alternative to chance. A lot of people think that evolution is all about random chance. That’s ludicrous. That’s ridiculous. Mutation is random in the sense that it’s not anticipatory of what’s needed. Natural selection is anything but random. Natural selection is a guided process, guided not by any higher power, but simply by which genes survive and which genes don’t. That’s a non-random process. The animals that are best at what they do — hunting, flying, fishing, swimming, digging — whatever the species does, the individuals that are best at it are the ones that pass on the genes. It’s because of this non-random process that lions are good at hunting, antelopes so good at running away from lions, and fish are so good at swimming.

There are intelligent people who have been taught good science and evolution, and who may choose to believe in something religious that may seem to fly in the face of science. What do you make of that? It’s certainly hard to know what to make of it. I think it’s a betrayal of science. I think they have a religious agenda which, for reasons best known to themselves, they elevate above science. — Beliefnet.com