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The Dalai Lama suggests that the Darwinian model of evolution cannot explain everything about evolution, because the Darwinian model excludes non-material realities. This is where the Dalai Lama shows how Buddhism can offer a critique of a science based solely on materialism. The Dalai Lama's critique begins with the observation that according to current biological consensus, genetic mutations appear in a random, unpredictable manner. The Dalai Lama writes that the idea that the appearances of mutation “are purely random strikes me as unsatisfying. It leaves open the question of whether this randomness is best understood as an objective feature of reality or better understood as indicating some kind of hidden causality.” The Dalai Lama would agree with many Christians on this point: that mutations may be random from a methodologically naturalistic scientific perspective, but not necessarily random from a non-naturalist perspective.

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