Mutation is mindless and directionless, for the most part yes. ( Tbwp can demonstrate otherwise, somewhat.)
Natural selection however, is mindless but not directionless.
So therefore, if one were to explain Evolution, one would need explain a mindless but "directed" process.
Or "direction-ful"?
Your distinction is one without a difference. Water flows downhill, and it will not on its own rise above its source. The water streaming is a direction; it is not selecting anything, but reacting to the conditions and forces at play, nothing creative is in that.
Nothing about a process like this is in the real world is used to construct a functionally sophisticated specific feature. The start and stop of something for a system to operate correctly if a necessary feature. This is not like wind moving the branches on a tree, or weather fronts causing storms, it is creatively forming something into existence that was never here before.
To get the right answer, we must ask the correct question.
" Can a mindless and directionless process produce our entire biosphere?" would be an incorrect question. Because the question does not pertain to the theory which is on the table. Evolution.
A more concise question would be "Can a mindless but directed process produce our entire biosphere?"
And here, the answer may very well be "Yes."
The point isn’t that there is some direction!! A rock falling to the ground is moving in a direction, what it doesn’t do land along with several other stones in such a formation that they spell out “Oh boy howdy dowdy” when they land on the ground, that is without a little more than only direction involved. That type of construction, just spelling out simple words, isn’t just done without more than gravity at play. You have something else, some evidence or testable support to support that?
Your distinction is still without a difference.
Mutation is mindless and directionless, for the most part yes. ( Tbwp can demonstrate otherwise, somewhat.)
Natural selection however, is mindless but not directionless.
So therefore, if one were to explain Evolution, one would need explain a mindless but "directed" process.
Or "direction-ful"?
Your distinction is one without a difference. Water flows downhill, and it will not on its own rise above its source. The water streaming is a direction; it is not selecting anything, but reacting to the conditions and forces at play, nothing creative is in that.
Nothing about a process like this is in the real world is used to construct a functionally sophisticated specific feature. The start and stop of something for a system to operate correctly if a necessary feature. This is not like wind moving the branches on a tree, or weather fronts causing storms, it is creatively forming something into existence that was never here before.
To get the right answer, we must ask the correct question.
" Can a mindless and directionless process produce our entire biosphere?" would be an incorrect question. Because the question does not pertain to the theory which is on the table. Evolution.
A more concise question would be "Can a mindless but directed process produce our entire biosphere?"
And here, the answer may very well be "Yes."