Sublime

Evolution by natural selection starts with how come and arrives at what for.

Why does the theory of evolution provoke such objections,

The answer derives from the fact that what is good for groups is not always good for the individuals comprising them. For example, both multicellular organisms and social insect colonies are functionally specialized and hierarchically organized collectives that are highly successful in maintaining and transmitting accumulated knowledge, in the form

evolution does not ‘care’ about that. It favours only the genes that spread best through the population.

the superefficiency actually traps bacteria in a situation where their genomes can’t grow any bigger—they are allowed just enough to survive.

natural selection promoting genes for intelligence has probably been far more ruthless in New Guinea than in more densely populated, politically complex societies, where natural selection for body chemistry was instead more potent.

Science and purpose were made for each other.

the severe problem for Darwin’s theory of evolution in accounting for biological features that require multiple interacting components was one of the first major scientific arguments advanced against it