Dominus' Razor

It's actually just a more general form - stupidity is a value of the 'intelligence' property.

"Cleverer," I think, is the right way of phrasing things.

If you find it useful to tell yourself that evolution is cleverer than you then by all means go ahead. But if you are telling me that evolution is cleverer than me then I'm telling you that you are wrong. Evolutions are stupid. I would grant you 'more patient'. I would not necessarily object to "know better than you" either, even if I wouldn't use the line myself. It would at least apply to those areas where evolution and I have similar optimisation goals and inputs.

We might even imagine that her main objective was to show us how clever she was.

That is... the totally wrong way to go about worshipping her. If evolution had a goal to show of cleverness it'd look entirely different to what we see.

Likewise, free markets are generally more clever than wise, although they are much wiser than evolution.

Markets are way more clever than me. I expect them to be as clever as the cleverest trader and then some. The best I can expect to do is to provide the market with insider information on the rare occasion that I have access to it.

Ice cream and condoms didn't exist in the ancestral environment; using them as criticism of evolution is like using a screwdriver to pound nails and then blaming it for being a poorly designed hammer.

No, it is precisely the point. I am cleverer than a hammer. Evolution is dumb enough to have gone ahead and created its usurper. Evolution really will go ahead and evolve itself to irrelevance. By the time it figures out that the current state of it's cleverest creations isn't one where they optimise their response to future selective pressures it'll be too late. We'll have solved the relevant cooperation problem or we'll have messed up evolution's existing creations and resources beyond all recognition.

The backward retina may be an interesting case in point here: I've seen an article (years ago, don't remember the link) claiming it makes maintenance easier; an important advantage if so, considering that unlike your cell phone camera, this is a piece of hardware that has to operate without replacement for a timescale on the order of a century. I don't know whether it's a good trade-off on balance, but even if it's not the optimal design, it might still make the retina a relevant example of something that actually makes more sense than it would seem at first glance.

I consider that an example of human cleverness. If there is one thing we are good at it is creating arguments for things that are caused by something completely irrelevant. Take that Urist McHatedRival!

That's exactly why it's not cleverer than us - we live in an environment with ice cream and condoms. Among the !Kung, the saying might make sense (except that an explicit understanding of evolution didn't exist in the ancestral environment, either). We've been handed a better screwdriver than we could make, but so what? We need a better hammer, and we can make one.

"clever" not being the same as smart or rational is relevant here. Evolution is very stupid and very clever.

I don't just reject the literal meaning. I do think defining 'clever' in any way that makes evolution clever is a terrible definition but that isn't important. The meaning, connotation and intent behind making the exhortation "Evolution is cleverer than you are" to yourself is just entirely undesirable and not at all the profound wisdom that it presents itself as. It's misleading self sabotage.