why DID we evolve into humans?

I agree with Gary. Wheat contains variety within its genetic code. Natural selection or controlled breeding...either way you only have so much variance that is allowed. Even cross breeding is limited to the individual characteristics of the two specimens being crossed.I am new to this forum and have been reading through some of the messages in this string. One point I want to mention is that cephalopods, or squid and octopuses have compound eyes similar to that of humans. However, no evolutionist could even imagine a common ancestor between humans and cephalopods that also had functioning eyes. The answer I get from my biology professors?...Convergent evolution. By that they mean the seperate evolution of the same (or very similar) organ in two different animals. Science teachers sure can dance!Another point I would like to mention is the fact that there are animals that quite simply could not have evolved. The woodpecker for instance. The woodpecker has an extremely hard, pointed beak which it uses to pound into the trunks of trees. But this beak would be useless if it did not have a dense skull and a layer of impact absorbing tissue between this skull and the beak.Apply this to evolution. Suppose an ancestor to the woodpecker is born with an unusually hard beak. It flies to a nearby tree, cocks back its head and WHAM! The bird crushes its own skull. Or suppose the bird is born with an unusually hard skull. One smack against the tree and its beak splinters. The woodpecker needs multiple elements in its head in order to be able to strike a tree thousands of times a day. There is no survival value in the individual components of the woodpecker, only in the complete form. Throw this in there too. The woodpecker has an extremely long, sticky tongue which it uses to eat insects out of the holes it creates. What does the woodpecker do with this long tongue while it is not using it? Why it simply slides it out of its beak through a little notch in the side and inserts it into a muscular sheath under its scalp around its head, and then sticks it in its nostril. Which evolved first? The tongue or the sheath?there is too much design here to ignore