our entry level sciences were earth science and a brief overview of biology, having people chew a soda cracker to check their bloodtype, doesn't always work...i can tell you about the, evolution of valleys, the randomness that came from gigantic glaciers tearing through massive stone mountains...i can even tell the difference between a variety of rocks, minerals and read my popular science monthly...but how is "natural selection" not random?

because it's dependent on environmental factors?

...we started out in africa short and dark, and as we migrated up to the north we grew lighter, more hair and heftier bodies to with stand the cold...if the ideal of evolution comes into play, was that natural selection that we were better migrators than, well...the neanderthals i suppose as they didn't survive?

monkey man needed to walk further distance so over time his body became more designed to walk tall on two legs than four...etc, but anyone who's read about prehistoria knows the chronology of man from little ape in africa to dominating war mongers of the north.

what's the opposite of random, if it's not random shouldn't there be a predictable order...what would be the next species to survive, when we fail...or will humanity always be around, i mean...if it does have a predictable pattern, wouldn't science be able to say?

please oh mighty paragon's of all science and knowledge, explain the order and predictibility of natural selection to me, proving how it's not random.

because looking over the evolution of man, i see nothing that suggests it was anything other than a luck of the draw...if no deity was involved.