> but still the overall coordination seems so much more purposeful than something that would happen with a few initial mutations and then some further selection

> but still the overall coordination seems so much more purposeful than something that would happen with a few initial mutations and then some further selection. Isn't this just selection bias on a grand scale? You're looking at a specimen where the parts happened to end up arranged in a way that allows it to exhibit these properties that seem like coordination, while not paying much attention to the quintillions of specimens that did not.