Ross and others here should read "Darwin's Dangerous Idea". Evolution is a scientific theory. As such it is accepted by most scientists and sciences. Natural selection is a physical process. Variations occur through natural processes and some get selected if they have some benefit that helps in an environment.
If you insist that other mechanisms are behind the complexity we find in life then list them. It is no explanation whatsoever to suggest an higher intelligence is behind things. That is the stuff of magic and we wouldn't have the technology that we enjoy today unless scientists asked the right questions about the universe. Not everything is known and that goes for evolution. Evolution remains a scientific theory. Lots of gaps remain and perhaps we will never have a complete explanation. However, the process is something that more is known about as time goes on. There are no sky cranes needed to help evolution. If the conditions are right and enough time elapses then life can evolve and via natural selection we can have different species. It doesn't mean that we would get the same species if life evolved again on earth after a mass extinction. Nor would we likely get similar species if life evolves elsewhere in the universe. At the moment there is no evidence that intelligent life or any life whatever exists elsewhere in the universe. The distances between the stars is so vast that interstellar travel seems almost impossible.
Please refrain from thinking that one is informed and educated via the internet. It is possible to learn things but without a grounding in learning it is possible to end up believing utter nonsense. Wiggs was a nincompoop and many of us told him so before the event that didn't occur. There was no need to say anything at all to him afterwards.
Wiggs and Erstling are not idiots or morons but reasonably intelligent guys who were led astray by bullshitters on the internet. People believe all manner of stuff that isn't true so it is nothing to be ashamed of. Believing something from the bottom of your hearts is no guarantee that it is true. What is sad is that these people do not have the vocabulary to sift the sense from the crap one reads online. Go get a real education and try to peddle your nonsense to professors at a recognized university.
I will say it again, I was hooked on SCIENCE way before I became interested in BODYBUILDING. I will also say, I never thought in a MILLION years that I would eventually come to disbelieve that Natural Selection was the sole force of Evolution on earth. However, after reading some new and interesting materials on Chaos and Complexity Theory, Information Theory(Quantum and classical),Quantum Conciousness, and Fractal Geometry, I had an epiphany, and can no longer accept the DOGMA. I expect to get heat, I mean after all, I am challenging one of the most accepted scientific theories of all time. But hey, when Einstein FLIPPED Newtonian Physics upside down, everyone called him "stupid" and "crazy".
NATURAL SELECTION, as a mechanism of action for evolution, has many fundamental scientific and philosophical problems. MANY modern scientists are challenging the Darwin dogma, I encourage you to conduct your own research, ie, GOOGLE!
