NS holds that the fittest survive. Because they survived. That's like saying the rich are wealthy because they have lots of money. It explains nothing. Nonetheless, NS is applied in the most ridiculous ways.
Some biologists believe that flight began with aquatic insects skimming over still water.
They concluded that wings, in accord with Darwin's proposition, developed by small increments. In an age of modern social awareness, there is no excuse for defending Natural Selection. It has unwholesome social implications and, unlike evolution itself, is scientifically untenable. North Shore News a division of Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc., a division of Southam Publications, a CanWest Company. All rights reserved.