[Dog Gone]

The insistence that this laboratory work shows any kind of blind evolutionary process contradicts the fact that these research efforts were not “blind,” but directed and purposeful.

Who insisted that? Why isn't this a classic strawman argument?

[GodGunsGuts]

The whole experiment was conducted in an effort to explain how life supposedly emerged from blind evolutionary processes. Did you somehow fall under the impression that they were trying to demonstrate how life might have got started via intelligent design?