What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Natural selection is anything but random.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we won't make the cut.