Detecting design or intent in nature

[downbeatplumb]

Evolution is more akin to a force than a system.

It is merely whatever helps one animal breed and another not.
Longer legs, bigger lungs, not standing by the tiger, you get the idea.

You don't have to invoke anything extra, but by the lord Harry I'm sure you'll try, because you believe so hard and want others to join in so your view wont seem quite so silly.

In physics a force is something that causes a change in an object's motion. Evolution is not a force. Evolution is a system because it contains different elements which together make a more complex whole. Elements of evolution are replication, heritability, change or mutation, and selection.

I said it was "akin" to a force I did not say it was literally a force.

Evolution is the accumulation of things breeding for a long time. The PRESSURES on this can take many forms. Some of which you have touched on.
The thing is if things live and reproduce then evolution is what happens no intelligence is required.
In fact for the vast majority of the time life has been on earth things were pretty static still things started to get it on.
Where was the intelligence for the first billion years?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/history_of_the_earth