Richard Dawkin's big blunder

[LostLocke]

Which would leave you with the concept that every species that exists, has existed, and will exist is a target. Kinda makes the whole concept of a target useless and practically infinite.

You are incorrect.

A target could consist of the complete set of all possibilities....like the random sentence in Dawkins' example. Or it could be a very small subset of all possibilities....like the specific sentence from Dawkins' example. Or it could contain any number of possibilities. Convergent evolution suggests that in natural evolution the size of the targets is relatively small.

By your definition then, you could go below species to sub-species or breed. Or up, to family, order, class, etc...
Which of all these groups is a target? Which are not? Or are they all targets?
When does whatever group you want to call it become a target? When does it stop being a target?

65 million years, were those massive reptilian and avian creatures walking the earth the target? When the meteor hit and they were, relatively, instantly wiped out and mammals moved up the ranks, were they now the target?