I really don't want to get into the topic of evolution vs. God and all that bullshit. I'm saying that as a species we evolve. We have evolved from the primative man into what we are today. Normally species evolve over millions of years, and they evolve naturally. I do not think this is the case anymore with our speices. I believe that our next evolution will not be done by nature, but rather by ourselves.
We have many technical advantages over other animals in the world, one of these advantages is our brain. The human brain is much more powerful than any other brain on Earth. This technical advantage gives us many huge logistical advantages. One of these dvantages is the fact that we no longer have to wait for nature to come around and improve on our species, we can do it ourselves. I believe that nature evolved us to a point where we no longer require nature to improve us. Our brains are so advanced that we can now self evolve.
In the thread titled
Nanotechnology I talk about using this technology to coat our bones in armor, to me this is a small form of self evolution. In the future there will greater things available. It may even be possible one day you have a supercomputer microchip inplanted in our brains, thus increasing our brain power exponentially. Clearly this is a form of evolution. Of course this will not happen for many, many years, so if humans are still around, and we haven't killed each other off, things like this could happen.