The outcome of Dawkins' WEASEL program was prespecified (Talk.Origins)

Claim CF011.1:

Dawkins [1996] demonstrated a program that starts with a random string of letters and, via random copying errors, evolves it into the phrase "Methinks it is like a weasel" in just a few generations, demonstrating the power of natural selection unaided by intelligence. But intelligence is involved in predetermining the target sentence.

Source:
 * Gitt, Werner, and Carl Wieland, 1998. Weasel words. Creation 20(4):20–21

CreationWiki response: (Talk Origins quotes in blue)

True, but it is Evolutionists that have applied Dawkins' simulation to Evolution as a whole. The above claim is just a response to these Evolutionists.

It is rather strange that Dawkins has elsewhere insisted strongly that natural selection cannot plan ahead--what is a predetermined target sequence other than a pre-planned goal? Yet Dawkins, in an interview commenting on The Blind Watchmaker,  maintains that natural selection cannot think ahead, and must deal with what is able to be selected upon: "...[we can't say] well, if we hold out for another million years, that should set us up splendidly to evolve in another million years' time..."

This is irrelevant to the claim in question since it deals only with Dawkins' simulation.