re: A Scientific dissent from Darwin

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In a way, intelligent design reaffirms Darwin's "survival of the fittest". If an individual is designed stupidly, it's not going to last very long on our planet.

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I would just like to interject that "fittest" is often misinterpreted by the layman to mean "best". As if evolution has some end goal.

But fittest only means "works better than the alternative in that given time".

For example. If the world turned substantially colder, I suspect over time many animals without decent self-heating mechanisms or protection would die off and those that either had, or developed furry coats or other mechanisms would do great. But, if at some point after that, the world turned substantially warmer, the opposite would occur.

Neither of those adaptions would be "better" in some concrete sense. They just worked in that time frame. The same goes for millions of other evolutionary pressures in the environment.