As in what species? Sponges? What changes have they been through recently?
The sightless cave fish you brought up. How does your thought → DNA change work if there’s no brain there to think?
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Even Bill hasn’t suggested that this is a capability of a fish brain. 
You left off the plants. They evolve incredibly rapidly.
Posting the evolutionary history of the Hawaiian Silversword alliance at this point would probably just be mean.
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So how can this be due to sensory input if there is no sensory input at the time?
The vast majority of species on Earth don’t have brains, and yet mutations occur in their genomes. How do you explain this?
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What? I quoted from the article regarding brain and neural function. These are tactics you use in your arguments that probably have gained you ground in the past. Your words make no sense however in this argument.
Yes you did but that didn’t answer the question. How does your thought → DNA change work if there’s no brain there to think?
Notice at least 3 people are asking you the same question which exposes a big flaw in your hypothesis. Welcome to scientific critical peer review.
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Really? And no neural nets either or neural bundles either? The organisms that truly to not have brains or nervous systems are not changing, are they? The are “doing what comes naturally”. No change. No evolution necessary for survival.
You talk about plants. I am talking about animals.
How do plants evolve then?
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You tell me.
The same way as animals: by random mutations. What’s your alternative?
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The same way animals evolve. Through undirected random genetic variations which occur every generation and which are filtered by selection and by neutral drift.
Show us how that is wrong, don’t just assert it.
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By the way here’s a great statement about sponges
“Sponges are a case in point. They have survived, without a thought or even a brain to think with, for hundreds of millions of years. They have never needed to get any more complicated, and intelligence wouldn’t have helped them.”
So sponges are animals which don’t have a brain yet they continued to evolve for hundreds of millions of years.
That supports your hypotheses exactly…how?
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Naturally I do not assert that fine point. You know that about me already. My point is no brain, no nervous system — no change.
Sounds to me like he’s claiming they haven’t evolved at all during that time because they didn’t have a brain to cause any changes.
No neural nets or neural bundles. Most life is single celled.
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