Not only, that there is no "intelligent designer" on the African planes, but the humble evolution is putting the elephants, crocodiles and humans there - not only that. The bright ideas in our heads are born in the same way as those species originates.
Nobody is smarter than evolution.
Using random mutations results in a stupid optimisation technique.
Of course it is trivially true that the mind uses evolution-like algorithms internally. Most optimisation techniques have a basis in trial-and-error. That doesn't mean that they are constrained to use "random" mutations.
http://edge.org/conversation/infinite-stupidity-edge-conversation-with-mark-pagel
Random change, then a selection, says Mark Pagel. As I agree, here's the link.