Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00095)

In a message dated 11/10/99 7:21:26 PM Central Standard Time,
ambain@ambain.screaming.net writes:

> > "Evolution" by its very definition implies
>  > progress=change over time.
>
>  Is it not usually used to describe change *for the better* over time?  I
>  fear I see no evidence for evolution that fits this ideal.  Even the
>  Darwinian "survival of the fittest" idea

Evolution needs careful defining.  Darwinian evolution means
that the fittest, at any inopportune moment, survive.  That does not
mean they are better.  In essence, the Darwinian formula is
the survivors survive.  Pure accident.