There seems to be a general distaste amongst creationists for the idea of "random mutations". A thread about logic is drifting off topic on the subject at this moment. So, if anyone wants to discuss what is meant in biology by the phrase "random mutations", here's the place to do so.
First, a definition of random, pulled at random from the first dictionary that comes up when one googles "dictionary".
Online Dictionary:
1. proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
2. Statistics. of or characterizing a process of selection in which each item of a set has an equal probability of being chosen.
On the other thread, I compared genetic mutation to lightning strikes. Lightning may be more likely to strike some things than others, as some parts of the genome may be more prone to mutation than others, but lightning and mutations both strike "without definite aim, reason or pattern" as in the definition above.
So why do some creationists have a problem understanding this?
(You don't have to be a creationist to give an opinion).