Richard Dawkin's big blunder

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Yes evolution is guided in the same way that a river is guided by it banks. The path of river is not blind. If it was you would not be able to predict where its is going to go.

I use "fitness paradigm" instead of "natural selection" because there are types of evolution in which "natural selection" isn't a good description. Memetic evolution uses selection guided by intellect and using the term natural selection in a discussion about memetic evolution would be inaccurate. "Fitness Paradigm" is just a term I coined as a generic term for any kind of selection mechanism.

We already have a generic term for selection mechanisms. It's called "selection mechanisms."

As for any selection that is guided by intelligence, that's called artificial selection, and it's as old as animal domestication.