Evolution and Natural Selection: Fierceness in the Selection Process
The process of natural selection is so fierce, just around one in ten to one in a hundred of those born live to produce offspring. This proportion of variations yields abundant scope for the selection of any variance needed in order to alter the species in such a was as to bring the species into balance with new or changing conditions. This process of selection would be much more easy and certain if we look at how slow land-surfaces and climates endure permanent changes. These are the type of transfers that create and compel modifications, first, it is most likely, in the distribution, and afterward in the structure and habits of species.
One can conclude, then, this utterly necessary theory from the facts: if natural selection can and does uphold each continuously altering species in particular adaptation to an unchanging environment, that it maintains the fixedness of its typical circumstance. Virtually every objector agrees with this theory. In a slowly changing environment, the same force would unavoidably give rise whatever correlated modification is needed for the well-being and perpetual survival of the various species which are subjected to those changed conditions.
I shall not include any additional critique of the objections proclaimed by critics of the theory. All of these have, I believe, been amply responded to by myself and other evolution theorists. Many of them have been talked about in review articles including the works I am presently posting. The word extinction is a more potent word than natural selection, but let’s remember that what we in truth are talking about is those maladapted species who perish while those more adapted survive.
The evolution creationism controversy debate has heightened in the last 20 years, and especially in the last 10. It is creating a disappointing diversion from our task of the further cultivation of knowledge, theory and reason within the subject of evolutionary biology. We in the scientific discipline are no doubt frustrated by this, and perhaps we find as a release valve for this frustration a healthy dose of humor on the sometimes ludicrous debate about evolution, creationism and intelligent design.
