Natural Selection - No Big Deal After All
The Bearded Buddha took the concept of natural selection primarily from Edward Blyth, then twisted it into a creative force. He probably realized it was fiddle-faddle, as he backed off from it later in life. Darwin's disciples still cling natural selection as vitally important to evolution.
Natural selection is an observed fact and thousands of papers have been written about it. Seeing it work with mutations to form an entirely new creature — no. Experiments and observations were in laboratory settings until one on water fleas ruined everything.
Water flea illustration, Flickr / thecmn (PD) |
A long-term study on a tiny organism was recently published. It was hailed as a major triumph of Darwinianism. Titles like these were splashed across the web: An incredible organism is evolving at lightning speed—faster than we ever imagined possible: rip up the old rules of biology.Strangely, this report included a line that completely contradicts their own headline:
To read the rest, see "Natural selection in the real world is mostly ineffective."