Xennos

Your observation is 10,000 years (+/-) behind. Man has been directing his own development from the dawn of civilization. We taught ourselves science and flew to the moon and back. We taught ourselves to live and work together such that X billion of us can exist together. We taught ourselves religion.

Some mistakes have been made on the way.

Instinct would get us none of this, and survival of the fittest would not have allowed Stephen Hawking to keep writing.