No Duality between environment and living things in evolution

When evolution is explained solely as the environment forcing adaptation upon living forms, with different pressures coming from different environments making species different from one another, what seems to be left out is the drive to live and evolve. Does the Cause emanate from the environment?

The environment is not merely “forcing adaptation” on living things as if it were an outside force, the environment is made up of living and past living things, with all of them nevertheless in competition, all driven by the same will to live, or more precisely, the will to Godhood, and this helps define what the Soul does. There is not a duality here between that which forces adaptation and that which evolves.

Who will attain Godhood? God seems to “wait” to see, like a Kosmic coach, and perhaps God sometimes helps those along who find or follow the better paths to Godhood.