Uhhhh .. intelligence? A specific goal being worked toward? Unwanted traits being bred out?How does an unthinking, unplanning process do that?/i>
A process termed natural selection or survival of the fitest.
As a species experiences 'changes' due to a matching up of different and various gene strains (dominant and recessive traits) either more or less hardy members of that species are BOUND to occur, hence, the hardier species will survice those vagaries OF NATURE as imposed upon that species by such STRING influences as THE WEATHER or natural predation ...
It's all part of God's design. You may call it something OWING to your idealogocal slant, such as 'intelligent design'.
The problem is - I think that your thinking is STAGNANT in this regard: God developed a wonderful system with a dynamic element within in it - and that is through the mating/reproduction process where DIFFERENCES occur.
In my book - all these arguments are sheer idiocy - in light of what we ACTUALLY know today ...
Most of you guys are UNTRAINED in any technical field where the unmutable laws of physics rule, and they rule as decreed by God when he created the universe.
I think the problem is that *you* guys think that God designed a static, unchanging universe. Such thinking in past centuries has lead to the following erroneous thinking/conclusions: "Flat Earth", "Our World is the Center of the Universe".
I'll bet you also believe in pre-destination, too - and NOT free will as described in the Bible ...
No, I don't think He created a static, unchanging universe. There are too many examples against that. But I also don't believe He created a "soup" and let life "evolve" as it may. I believe He created each species pretty much as it appears today (or until they went extinct), and that there are lots of examples within the species of changes. However, at no time, ever, did one species become another.
I'll bet you also believe in pre-destination, too - and NOT free will as described in the Bible ...
Drop in on the Calvinism discussion and look for my posts. You lose.