Natural selection is the Darwinists main magic wand for the passing of life from some purely hypothetical first common ancestor, to man. By this “mechanism”, the Darwinian elite claim that all life on earth has come to be. Survival of the fittest, they used to call this. They have attributed to natural selection all the power of a deity.
Natural selection is seen as a cornerstone piece within the whole “modern synthesis” framework.
Simply put, Natural selection is the process by which biological organisms with favorable traits survive and reproduce more successfully than organisms that do not possess such traits. Conversely, organisms with deleterious traits survive and reproduce less successfully than organisms lacking any weakening traits.
Evolutionist Ernst Mayr defined natural selection as “the process by which in every generation individuals of lower fitness are removed from the population.”
It is well argued that natural selection, in the Darwinian sense, constitutes a tautology. It survives therefore it is fit. It is fit therefore it survives.
This is still controversial and often debated simply because the modern Darwinist does not like being told his that one of his major foundation stones, for the whole of Darwinian theory, is circular reasoning. Darwinism is in fact based on several logical fallacies like this. Another common Darwinian fallacy goes like this:
Species A is morphologically very similar to species B, therefore they are biologically related or have some evolutionary common ancestor. Modern molecular biology and genetics has proved this wrong (like so many other standard Darwinian claims). That specific error is almost a textbook definition of the logical fallacy called “undistributed middle”.
So they, as usual, merely deny the reality of it and go on arguing over as if debating it using this or that sophism changes anything of the truth of it.
Without going into the origin of this now ubiquitous term, I’ll simply say that it was an idea spawned and developed by creationists, not atheists. Darwin took the term mostly from Edward Blyth a British zoologist who had written on the subject long before his “Origin”, as had others. Indeed, according to anthropologist Loren Eiseley, Darwin appropriated the work of Edward Blyth, who wrote on natural selection and evolution in two papers published in 1835 and 1837. From a creationist viewpoint. (Eiseley L.C., “Charles Darwin, Edward Blyth, and the Theory of Natural Selection,” in “Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X,” E.P. Dutton: New York, 1979, p.50) Darwin basically took the idea changed it to his own view and “ran with with”, bringing it to the very pinnacle of his theory of evolution.
It is viewed, in Darwinism, that mutations, by creating genetic diversity, supply the raw material for natural selection to work on.
Well, let’s get to the reality of what Natural selection really is. Using Mayr’s definition of “removed from the population“: In a word, natural selection is tantamount to “death”.
This should be extremely obvious, since removed = dead, but for the Darwinian mindset, most of the time, this logic is not obvious. Real selection is not anything being selected at all, its all about things being filtered out of the environment by death and that’s all. Death rids the “unfit” species from the world. Selection is thus just a very banal involuntary filter. Not really a process at all. Stuff happens.
This is easily seen by the fact that if one removes death, there would be no such thing as natural selection at all. Not in any Darwinian sense, that’s for sure.
“Selection” is thus a poor choice of words for elimination, removal, extermination, failed. Don’t you think? It’s almost the equivalent of the Grim Reaper. Real selection implies choice, but nature has no mind to enable it to choose anything at all. Some things die, that’s it. And it often has little to do with fitness. Many species that seem to be perfectly “fit”, die out anyway.
Again, this is not hard.
So the fact that Darwinian fundamentalists treat natural selection like some sort of wizard able to leap tall buildings with a single bound, creating all the estimated 8 million living species on earth, is rather amazing. You may even find it amusing, and indeed it would be if not so serious and error.
By realizing the real nature of natural selection, its fairly straight forward to see why it isn’t all its cracked up to be. Here’s the ultimate question: How can mutations, most of which are either neutral or deleterious, + death be the mechanism, that creates all life on earth? A strange theory indeed.
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