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The actual “selection” process of natural selection is so intensive, that only around one in ten to one in a hundred of those born live to produce young. This ratio of variances yields ample scope for the selection of any variation necessary in order to alter the species in such a was as to bring it into balance with new or changing conditions. This process of natural selection would be more simple and certain if we take into account how slowly land-surfaces and climates experience permanent changes. These are the kind of modifications that create and reinforce alterations, first, most likely, in the dispersion, and afterwards in the bodily structure and habits of species.

One can conclude, then, thisutterly necessary understanding from the facts: if natural selection can and does support each continuously changing species in adaptation to an unchanging environment, that it upholds the fixedness of its normal condition. Almost every objector admits this viewpoint. In a slowly changing environment, the same power should inevitably produce some correlated change is needed for the well-being and enduring survival of the different species which are subjected to those changed conditions.

I shall not include a additional critique of the dissents asserted by critics of the theory. These have, I believe, been fully covered by myself and other evolution theorists. Some of these writers have been discussed in review articles including the works I am currently posting. The word extermination is a more mighty word than natural selection, but in point of fact what we really are talking about is the maladapted species who perish while those more adapted survive.

The evolution creationism controversy debate has heightened in the last 20 years, and in particular in the last 10. It is placing an unlucky diversion from our undertaking of the further cultivation of knowledge, theory and reason within the field of evolutionary biology. We in science are no doubt discomfited by this, and perhaps we gain as a release valve for this frustration a healthy enjoyment of humor on the sometimes amusing argument about evolution, creationism and intelligent design.