Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
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If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
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