Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)

[John 6IX Breezy]

Mutations do happen, but for reasons that will be diminished and protected against, as can be observed with codon degeneracy. Destinations do exist, as can be observed by the interplay between selection and adaptation. But again, agree to disagree.

No way. You are claiming that an evolutionary "destination" exists. Therefore it is your burden to demonstrate such a destination exists. Put up or shut up.

Certainly, given that a destination can be identified by some state of rest, you can observe these states in many difference places. For example, this video of e. coli and antibiotics. Each stage of antibiotic concentration, leads to a new possible or ultimate destination. Some of the bacteria can't go further, because the antibiotics messes with their homeostatic balance, killing the bacteria. Their end state goes only as far as whatever concentration they can tolerate. Other bacteria that are more resistant find their state of rest at a higher concentration. They are in essence pushed there by en excess in the population at lower concentrations, and an absence of population at higher concentration, mixed with the internal adaptation to survive at that concentration. Hope that helps you understand selection and adaptation, and how they result in states of balance.