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Natural selection is not evolution.

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

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

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 is anything but random.

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.