Wednesday, February 11, 2009

I already have ...

... Forget About Survival of the 'Fittest'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Darwin's theory of natural selection tells us that a one-eyed creature may outcompete a blind creature, but that doesn't mean that a creature with two eyes couldn't come along later.

This seemingly subtle difference -- between "fittest among the choices that happen to be lying around" and "fittest imaginable" -- makes all the difference in the world.

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