Darwin evolution going backwards? (Introduction)

by Carl, Saturday, September 06, 2008, 03:54 (5710 days ago) @ David Turell

David says "Carl's declaration that evolution is a 'mindless process' is an unproven position, taken by Carl on faith."
Granted. It is just an opinion anyway, not a belief. I find the idea of intelligence being involved in natural selection implausible, unless it might be something like the ice age cycle. Mutation, on the other hand, is somewhat more plausible, since there is obviously a decision making process of sorts required in the cells reproduction machinery. It is conceivable that the machinery could be programmed to toss in a mutation every once in a while. Such a feature could tend to produce convergence, I presume.
But my opinion, based on what I know of evolution at this point, is still that it is a mindless process.