Theology redux, evolutionist style

Not a long post today, I just had to mention this article from NPR on whether we're really computer programs. Lookout John Calvin, here come the atheists on the predestination bandwagon. Except it isn't God who programmed us, it's a bored green nerd with a lot of terrabytes and time on his hands ... or tentacles.

The evolved male

Closely related to anthropomorphizing blind chance, is the tendency to laud it, much as theists laud their creator. A livescience.com story discusses the findings of a study of the Y chromosome of eight European and eight African males, presented Nov. 9 at the American Society of Human Genetics' annual meeting. The study disputes the notion that the Y chromosome is mostly junk. This finding is in line with many other recent findings, that what once was thought to be junk DNA isn't really junk at all.
The laudatory word is found in the headline. "The Y chromosome is an 'evolutionary marvel.'"  A "marvel" is defined by Mr. Webster as "one that causes wonder or astonishment <her talent is a marvel to behold>"
You'll note that the example Mr. Webster uses is the talent of a(n ostensibly intelligent) woman. The word "marvel" does not appear in the report, but the headline is put in quotes so we are left to believe that one of the geneticists did indeed refer to the Y chromosome as an "evolutionary marvel." Aren't undirected mistakes of nature marvelous?
Among the actions evolution is supposed to have taken toward the Y chromosome: it "weeded out a lot of variation"; "cull(ed) harmful gene changes"; and "reduced .. highly repetitive strings of letters." I generally thing of intelligent beings weeding, culling and reducing. I've never seen a mindless, uncreated force do so.