Contd,
From
TalkOrigins (definitely not a Creationist site: "The Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Jacques Monod wrote [1972:114]:
"The initial elementary events which open the way to evolution in the intensely conservative systems called living beings are microscopic, fortuitous, and totally unrelated to whatever may be their effects upon
teleonomic functioning.
But once incorporated in the DNA structure, the accident -- essentially unpredictable because always singular -- will be mechanically and faithfully replicated and translated: that is to say, both multiplied and transposed into millions or thousands of millions of copies. Drawn from the realm of
pure chance, the accident enters into that of necessity, of the most implacable certainties. For natural selection operates at the macroscopic level, the level of organisms."
The author of the essay , Jay Wilkins then spends the balance of the lengthy tome defending a position similar to yours, but, with some major disagreements. Here, you can, if you choose, read it yourself:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/chance/chance. html
Point being, just as the task of defining the term
species has no consensus, neither does any conciseness concerning "randomness". And, that, my worhty opponent, has been my point all along...