<<Isn't trial and error what evolution is doing with mutations? Natural
selection is what distinguishes the error.>>
That's a good question. And you're right. But the difference between this kind
of trial and error, and the human kind Bill described, is that the human model
has a goal in mind, a telos, intelligently selected. And the steps chosen are
not (mostly) "mutations" (sometimes they are, as in 3-M's Post-it Notes).
Usually, they are chosen because someone thinks they'll work. Then they are
fine tuned, etc.
Your view of evolutionary trial and error is certainly not the sort of TE
Terry Gray has explained. Are you saying that God, rather than directing
change, is actually watching the mutations make errors to be selected?
Jim