Natural Selection Eliminates And Maybe Maintains, But

Evolution Is No Linear Family Tree, But Change In The Single Multidimensional Being That Has Grown To Cover The Entire Surface Of Earth.

The Idea That We Are "stewards Of The Earth" Is Another Symptom Of Human Arrogance. Imagine Yourself With The Task Of Overseeing Your Body's Physical Processes. Do You Understand The Way It Works Well Enough To Keep All Its Systems In Operation? Can You Make Your Kidneys Function? Can You Control The Removal Of Waste? Are You Conscious Of The Blood Flow Through Your Arteries, Or The Fact That You Are Losing A Hundred Thousand Skin Cells A Minute?

Politicians Need A Better Understanding Of Global Ecology. We Need To Be Freed From Our Species-specific Arrogance. No Evidence Exists That We Are Chosen, The Unique Species For Which All The Others Were Made. Nor Are We The Most Important One Because We Are So Numerous, Powerful And Dangerous.

Life Learned Early On To Recognize Itself.

Although Random Mutations Influenced The Course Of Evolution, Their Influence Was Mainly By Loss, Alteration, And Refinement... Never, However, Did That One Mutation Make A Wing, A Fruit, A Woody Stem, Or A Claw Appear. Mutations, In Summary, Tend To Induce Sickness, Death, Or Deficiencies. No Evidence In The Vast Literature Of Heredity Changes Shows Unambiguous Evidence That Random Mutation Itself, Even With Geographical Isolation Of Populations, Leads To Speciation.