“Intelligence,” OUT OF NOTHINGNESS!

[bennyboy]

However mutation filtered through natural selection - be it sexual, environmental, or whatever - is the very opposite of random.

I'm not sure what you mean by random. If you mean the universe is deterministic, and nothing is random, then I'd have to disagree that this is known or knowable-- and that some aspects of QM make this idea seem unlikely to be true.

I'd really like to know in what specific sense evolution is seen as not being random, without first requiring the acceptance of absolute physical determinism as a confirmed aspect of reality.