Even in her transfigured state, the thought of goal-oriented evolution gave Evelyn the creeps. It smacked of Intelligent Design, the ludicrous evangelism of engineers masquerading as biologists, their PowerPoint presentations riddled with evasions and half-truths and pseudoscience. Such thinking confused causes and effects; it complicated unnecessarily the idea of evolution, a field where explanations are valuable only for their parsimony.
Joe Pitkin, A Murmuration of Starlings in Rich Horton (ed.) The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013, p. 367 (Originally published in Analog magazine, June 2012)