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Petesmith: One thing wrong with your argument Petesmith, is the familiar, and I have to say rather irritating, confusion of natural selection with 'randomness'. To help you with your confusion of evolution:
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. Natural selection is a spontaneous natural order but not random. Natural selection is like a blind watch maker; it cannot see ahead. Natural selection, does not plan for the future. Events in Nature are not really random, but that many kinds of order and complexity emerge naturally and spontaneously from often very disordered and chaotic kinds of conditions. Even the mathematical expression is showed for these ideas in the "chaos" theory.
Now, one might ask, why should anyone wish to avoid anything that would introduce God into a scientific theory; and the answer is that God makes a poor addition to any scientific theory precisely because God explains too much. Being omnipotent, God can do anything. Thus, if we ask, "Why is the sky blue?" we could simply say, "Because God makes it blue." Since this doesn't really explain anything, it must be a strong principle of science to exhaust all other forms of explanation before resorting to something that will simply end inquiry. This must be true about life on earth just as much as about the color of the sky.
Evolution has no long-term goal. Unlike 'Creationism' there is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although many people assume the stupid notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is a powerful idea, capable of explaining a huge range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable. Evolution can be more strongly supported by evidence of telling imperfections than by evidence of perfection.
Oh look, its raining DNA outside.
"The summit is just a halfway point"
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So natural selection just happened to form species which appear similiar to other species which are poisonous? 
