I can't speak to how evolution works, but this put me in mind of a story.
Met a gardiner one day, and he had a beautiful garden full of lovely
flowers, trees, sculpted bushes. I remarked how beautiful this was, and
he responded -- Yes, but you should have seen it before I got here, when
God has this place all to himself!
Part of the miracle is reserved for us. Things, left alone, will
degenerate to the lowest state of entropy, there's a force called life
that keeps coming back and regenerating and adding differentiation. Call
that whatever you will, but it's not pure energy! As human beings we can
take it to another level of organization. That's the miracle!
-- Gary Scherling Helping people help themselves http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GScherling_GMS_TPN GSCHERL@fed.ism.ca (GSCHERL)