Ok, let’s just call it “evolution”, since we get sidetracked on these silly debates about words.
The basic point of contention is whether the genome is changed without foresight as to what will or will not be fit, i.e. ‘randomly’. There should be no correlation between which nucleotides get mutated and the organism’s ‘fitness’ when we look at the biological data.
So, let’s do some science and test this claim! Already, we have an excellent candidate with Schaffer’s article, where we can download the genetic data from NCBI or some such and run a few Python scripts. Let’s get some more ideas to test!