Who, what is making the natural selection?

November 17, 10:52 PMChristian Worldview ExaminerBill Belew

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Natural selection is the process by which heritable traits that make it more likely for an organism to survive and successfully reproduce become more common in a population over successive generations. (says good ol' wikipedia...not your most credible source, I know.)

For a more confusing explanation with illustrations try UC Berkeley's attempt here.

My question is, "Who or what is making the natural selection?"

Selection implies there is a selector, no? Choice implies chooser, right?

And on what basis does the selector make his/her/its selection?

It seems to me folk do not want to acknowledge a Creator or Designer to the universe but would very much like to personify all that is around us and give it the ability to design. What's up with that?

Nature, natural = that which what? is? happens to be? just came about? You tell me.

How is it that nature (I don't usually use this word) is able to select anything?

And why can't evolutionists come up with their own terms? Or are they just waiting for those phrases to come to them? I don't get it.