I think this was an excellent observation.  Biological "selections" for adaptation are made by the use of each biological creature's intelligence.  No choice making creature could operate itself otherwise.(I wrote a book that touches on this subject some time ago, but I won't try to sell it here.)  There are molecular biologists with "philisophical" brains that you might want to study, such as James A Shapiro at the University of Chicago.
To argue that adaptation is governed by the luck of accidents is about as illogical as one can get, and yet you've been shot down here by "philosophiles" whose first duty should have been to study the logical systems that have been used by human creatures to evolve themselves to be the most creative and self adaptive thinkers of the biological world (although there are some pretty smart ones in the ocean that recreate themselves at will).
However, it seems that you're preaching to the largely neo-Darwinistic crowd here, so good luck with that.  And by the way, someone should remind them that instincts are strategies that biological beings have inherited from those in the past who had learned those strategies through a trial and error process, another thing that neo-Darwinists have failed to comprehend.