Quote Originally Posted by bbshriver View Post
So my thinking is evolution (without being put into action by some God/creator/mastermind) is random in that it cannot have an aim or purpose. Unless you're suggesting that the evolutionary process itself is determining where it wants to get to, which would circularly imply that the process itself is a sort of "god"/intelligent design.
Firstly in the scientific sense, random means: lacking predictability.

But aside from that, evolution kind of does have an aim or purpose namely, to produce an organism better adapted to it's environment than it's ancestors. This "aim" is determined by the evolutionary process itself and if you want to think of the process of evolution as a sort of "god" that's peculiar but up to you. However, it certainly doesn't require any kind of intelligent designer.