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Russell has applied quantum theory thinking about cause to evolutionary biology (genetics/variation) and explored its implications for divine action in the natural world. Russell uses the backdrop As genetic mutations can be caused by quantum level processes, the quantum effect is demonstrated to have macroscopic consequences (cite) to postulate how a theistic evolution would work through such processes (cite primary Russel).. If occasionalism is taken absolutely into the quantum realm, with God strictly in control of all creation, its significance is intensified into what may be called quantum occasionalism. With increasing knowledge of the complexity of quantum relationships, such an occasionalism would clarify various otherwise inexplicable

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