Question

Hello Rabbi, in the book God Plays Dice the Rabbi shows that the probability of evolution happening blindly, without someone causing it to happen, is not plausible. The Rabbi says in the book that if mutations happened by chance, then it seems this would lead to the extinction of life. A. Doesn’t the fact that mutations are very small explain why the change would not cause death? After all, the main part of the gene remains, and there are only very small changes that cause a change in a trait and not an essential change. I also wanted to ask about the calculation the Rabbi makes there, that from the Big Bang it is not plausible that evolution would create a reality of life like the one we see today. There the Rabbi starts from the assumption that the evolutionary process began with very many organisms, but the Rabbi did not take into account that they reproduce exponentially, which increases the amount of life enormously and therefore also greatly increases the probability. So the calculation seems incorrect. I would be happy to receive an answer, thank you very much. P.S. I was thinking that without the ability of genetic transmission, evolution could not exist. Isn’t that quite strong proof that the process did not happen by chance? How was a system created that passes on its traits? It would have to be very intelligent, no?