After hundreds of generations, blind evolution produced an expert checkers player, but not an infallible one.

The brain might linger for a little while as the last remnant of the organic body, directing its mechanical limbs and observing the universe through its electronic senses - senses far finer and subtler than those that blind evolution could ever develop.

Mind gives meaning to the blind evolutions that brought it into being.

We have always regarded it as our duty to reflect what is best in humankind, given that we are the work of your intellects rather than the processes of blind evolution, however purposeful in that blindness nature may be, and however noble and sophisticated its results.

We have forgotten that we are creatures of the natural world, and that all our skill and understanding is as nothing compared to the wisdom inherent in five billion years of blind evolution.

No more mere spectator, or chance product of blind evolution, the human appears to represent the essence of evolution, and human creativity becomes part of cosmic creativity.

Now mind was here, and had taken control; it was mind, not blind evolution, that would shape this landscape, and the whole of the planet, in the future.

I hope that Sir David Attenborough, and so many others, once 'see the light' that nature is not a matter of millions of years of blind evolution.