"Natural selection...could scarcely be less available for any hope that evolution might be cosmically rational. Natural selection is not about "improvement" or "progress" in any global sense. It is a remarkably inefficient, even cruel process. We never should have sought either solace or moral instruction in Nature, who was not made for us, or even had us in mind."--Stephen Jay Gould,
"A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child, subject still to her power, but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking Mother."--Bertrand Russell
Mindless nature, an unthinking Mother, cannot plan anything.
The organization of anything does not happen by chance.
Whatever is "not random" has been planned, whatever is random is "not planned".
I "think" we can call this "checkmate".
--Dave