Today I'm requoting some statements from biologos.org:
Behind the criticism that Darwinism means that evolution is either
random or rigidly determined lies the fear that evolution proceeds
blindly, and not in accordance with a divine plan. This is another
problem that really lies outside the terms of reference of biology. It
is true that biologists have inferred that, because evolution occurs by
natural selection, there is no divine plan; but they are being as
illogical as those theologians whom they rightly criticize for inferring
that, because there is a divine plan, evolution cannot be the result of
natural selection. -David Lack (source)
And from the same source:
Mutations are random in relation to the needs of the animal, but natural
selection is not. Selection, as the word implies, is the reverse of
chance. -David Lack (source)
I am glad to find that someone could put this so succinctly. It is an important concept that is misunderstood by non-biologists and "obvious" to biologists. It is good he has bridged that gap.