I saw a video once where Fr. George Coyne or Dr. Kenneth Miller (I forget which one) explained that the eventual goal, or one can say telos, of this creation, this cosmos, would probably ALWAYS be intelligent beings. What we cannot say is in what body habitus such intelligent beings would be in. Today, we know them to be in mammalian ape bodies. But if the multifactorial extinction of most dinosaurs did not happen 65 million years ago, it is reasonable to think that intelligent beings, beings with rational souls, could have had reptillian bodies.
In other words, there is an "ordered randomness" in science, but a goal is still present in them. It may sound philosophical now, but perhaps, empirically we could, maybe even should, consider in every scientific formula that it is not merely a random conclusion, but in a population basis, there should also be a fixed goal or standard.