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"But then there should be a record of billions of animals that adapted incorrectly. Instead, we find mostly ordered adaptation that takes place always in the right direction."

Of course, you're making a ludicrous argument, and why? Is the truth of the matter not perfectly obvious?

First of all, when most animals die, they get quickly eaten -- so whole species could rise and go extinct without leaving a fossil record for us to eventually find.

Second, there's no such thing as "right direction." Species adapt to survive in their environment. If the environment changes, then the species must either change or die out. To adapt incorrectly is to disappear.

First of all, when most animals die, they get quickly eaten -- so whole species could rise and go extinct without leaving a fossil record for us to eventually find.

So we don't find a fossil record of animals that adapted in the wrong way, you claim they are all eaten?! But we find a fossil record of animals that adapted correctly.

That is hard to believe.

First, there is adaptation in the right direction and the wrong direction, if evolution is random. If a species that moves to a colder climate grows additional fur to stay warm, that is adaptation in the right direction. If a species that moves to a colder climate loses its fur, that is adaptation in the wrong direction.

If animals only adapt in the right direction, it proves intelligent design....that there is a mechanism that causes species to adapt in the right direction.

If the species adapts in the wrong direction, we should find evidence of it in the fossil records. We don't. All we find is evidence of species that adapted in the right direction.

If you want to believe that all those who adapted in the wrong direction were eaten and only those who adapted in the right direction ended up in the fossil record then you simply don't understand the argument.