Room for Discussing Design in Evolution?

[Michael_Callen (Herculean Skeptic)]

Thank you @jongarvey… I think I read this seven times and still have some questions.

@jongarvey

By its self-imposed limitations, science does not study the whole of physical reality, but only patterns of regularity within it, made into abstractions in order to predict other similar events.

How do “design” and “randomness” fit into this definition? I suppose that one is to discern patterns of regularity vs. randomness (irregularity?) and apply each accordingly.

@jongarvey

If it can be mathematicized, it is no longer design that is being considered, but something else (such as what there is in common between the design of a trombone and the design of a constitution once one ignores the artifacts themselves).

I don’t understand this. Are you able to explain?