Lizzie: Your definition (as well as all others) of the natural selection process indicates that the most successful genotypes reproduce the most offspring because, after all, they are the most successful genotypes—and the proof that they’re the most successful is because otherwise they’d be unsuccessful . . . and likewise, that the unsuccessful, or unfit, genotypes reproduce less or not at all because they are, after all, unfit—and the proof that they’re unfit is because otherwise they’d be successful. Hence, survival of the fittest.

And that, my endangered blue state friend, is circular!

Lizzsie, at the beginning of this thread you implored that “the system of evolution by natural selection is one to get away from as fast as we can.” Well sister Lizzie, brother Fred has shown you the way. It is finished. Go in peace, be kind, and spread the good news that science does not confirm that we are products of a meaningless, purposeless, and directionless process.