Evolution

[Edwardo Piet]

Little Rik, your thread isn't about evolution. It's about your own misconception of it.

Oh, is that so?  

And this come from someone who could not even answer a single question from the OP.

Stunned again!  

The questions you ask don't tend to be worth answering. Learn some critical thinking LR! You're much too Chopra for my liking.

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Seen as I know how it feels to not have my questions answered and it costs me very minimal time to do so:

Is evolution based only in body changes or involve consciousness as well?

Consciousness as well. Which is also part of the body.

What is driving evolution?

Causation. Same as with what's driving everything else.

Survival only or involve also the need to reach some goal in life?

Natural selection. It's basically the process of elimination: That which survives, survives. And fitter organisms tend to be much more likely to survive, although that isn't necessarily the case.

But as a general trend, organisms evolve to be better at surviving simply by a combination of genetic variation + the fact that the less fit organisms tend to not survive and the fitter organisms tend to survive and so they're able to breed with each other, and that selects for fitter organisms. And that process just snowballs, very gradually, and very slowly, over time.

Are individual who are not able to survive lost for ever or will pop up in a different environment  most suitable to their capabilities to survive?

The organism at least in that form is lost forever.

Did Darwin and other really studied other possibilities other than whether evolution is driven only by survival?

It's not only survival it's natural selection as I described above. And yes biologists have studied many possibilities, genetic drift being one of them that some biologists think has more merit than others. There are also failed theories such as Lamarckism.

Can a plant evolve into an animal, an animal into a human or plant stay plant, animal stay animal and human stay human?

Animals have evolved from plants and human animals have evolved from non-human animals. So yes that can, does and must happen.

If evolution exist is because there is a goal to reach or is all about random chances?

Neither. Neither a goal nor all about random chances. It's only a little bit down to mutation, it's mostly down to natural selection + time.

Does evolution act like the gear of a vehicle that increase his speed as it change the gear?

No.