Directed evolution

I am sure this topic has been argued ad infinitum but I am new to the
argument so I am asking the question again.
It is my understanding that evolution theory says there is no such
thing as "directed evolution".
What are the implications of this? Could organisms similar to
previous ones be produced by evolution? ( I assume the answer is yes).
Does "directed" imply a director or does it simply imply a process of
simpler organisms producing more complex ones by natural processes.
Could "directed" evolution involving a director be somehow
differentiated from simple to complicated organisms via natural
processes?

In physics (my field), you really cannot run processes backward
without running into entropy, how does evolution deal with this
issue? I can imagine that on a micro-scale it is not a problem but on
a large scale it might be. It appears that evolution produces order
out of chaos in violation of thermodynamics, is this simply a local
observation or a universal one? I s'pose the question is if the order
produced by evolution is retained on time scales similar to the age of
the universe (unanswerable right now).

Basically, I am interested in the thoughts of evolutionary bio types
on these questions.

David OHara

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