Ken Wilber on evolution not being random

“...Eros is the drive of evolution---Spirit's own drive toward more and more complex forms of Kosmic manifestation...Some think that this is some sort of chance, random mutation---but that, in fact, is exactly what it isn't. It's the opposite of chance or randomness in the universe. It's evidence of a force that is pursuing against randomness in the universe...All of this, without exception, is driven by love...Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory holds that all of these transformations upward were just the result of chance and randomness. But there is no way in hell that the universe went from atoms to Shakespeare out of random stabs. This is an extraordinary driven process. The astrophysicist Erich Jantsch referred to evolution as “self-organizing through transcendence,” which is a good way to think about it. Because when this shows up in human beings, Eros shows up in increasingly higher, self-transcending levels of unity and consciousness...”

(Conversation in EnlightenNext, Issue 47, 2011 -p-48)