Okay... this is a prime example why I get all tied up like I did in the Natural Selection thread...

To a computer scientist... the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF ANY ALGORITHM IS THE STEP THAT DECIDES THE NEXT STEP... I've said before that the "filter" is the most important part of the process.

The evolution of life is NOT a computer algorithm. That is where the trouble has been. NS does filtering, but it can only choose from what it is given. It is not in a feedback loop. You are right. Two differing ways of looking at it.