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According to the Law of Biogenesis, life arises only from preexisting life.

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Natural selection is anything but random.

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.