Quote (Jazz_Thing @ Nov 24 2009 12:51pm)
That is quite a stretch, I hope you acknowledge at least that natural selection is a vital component to the academic buoyancy of Evolution.
Without natural selection it would literally have to be God or some kind of Creator that would designate the respective paths of each organism, which is far from the actual truth.
There's a new-ish theory in quantum physics called "retrocausality," or the idea that time travel is quite ordinary:
http://bexhuff.com/2007/03/retrocausality-time-travel-and-quantum-physicsAfter the big bang, the universe could have formed any number of ways... the vast majority would have led to a highly unstable universe. If the weight of the electron was a tiny bit different, Hydrogen atoms would not exist. The universe would be a boiling cauldron of chaos.
This new crazy theory is that we live in a "self tuning universe," with particles going backwards in time to adjust the big bang to ensure a more "stable" universe... one in which suns warm planets, ice floats, and clusters of self-replicating water bags of low entropy (aka life) is possible.