The very process of natural selection is happening there. (discovermagazine.com)
But the question arises: Do dinosaurs and finches possess their specific features in order to realize particular goals or because during the course of evolutionary experimentation they have accidentally acquired adaptive functions by an impersonal process of natural selection? (religion-online.org)
This effectiveness has been achieved chiefly through the growth of intelligence, and is most clearly manifest in the decisive change that has taken place in the method of evolution, which in man proceeds through reflective deliberation rather than through the unconscious processes of natural selection that prevailed in the pre-human era. (religion-online.org)