Survival of the Sweetest and Some

Other Short Radical Ideas on Biology

by Paul Pruitt
MA - 1986 University of Pennsylvania
Those organisms, most helping out the cause of life in general on planet earth are selected to
survive. As St. John said, "Any tree that does not bear fruit must be uprooted and thrown in the
fire." The crashing of comets into earth, are like the days of judgment in the Bible. The large
selfish, violent species are destroyed, whereas the small communal animals survive.

Darwin failed to take into account that man's hand was responsible for choosing pigeons and
dogs, and that God's hand in exactly the same way, is responsible for choosing finches etc. In fact
God acted through man to select dog breeds, and in so many ways Man and many other creatures
are acting out God's wishes to beautify and prune the growth of life on earth.

Survival of the gentlest or the "meek" occurs, not the "fittest" or as Dawkins seems to have that
gene is selfish and those genes best able to look after its own continued survival wins out. What
Dawkins is describing is actually what militates against life and is not life at all but a death.

One ostensible reason for this is that the "selfish" or parasitical part of the biosphere is weaker
than the unselfish cooperating part, and cannot survive severe stresses, like a comet crash. A
similar principle is used by doctors, to kill off cancer cells with radiation. A reason for this
strength is that the unselfish part of the biosphere "cooperates," where as the selfish part of the
biosphere does not.

The laws of the Bible apply strictly to nature in all ways, even if nature is 5 billion years old.
Only those organisms that bear good fruit, i.e. that contribute to life on earth survive. All
parasitical, "evil" organisms are wiped out eventually, in God's time.

The struggle of life is really like a good and evil Walt Disney movie. The good members of all
species foster good, while the evil foster life's destruction. The battle between good and evil is
the story of life at all times.

During times of severe environmental trauma (comet crashing into earth) there is severe
encrowding of species into each others niches. Interbreeding between species occurs at a much
greater than normal rate, leading to mostly infertile or unviable offspring, but some of the crosses
(spurred on by chromosome duplication, produced by increased radiation, from atmospheric
disruptions) produce viable offspring. These are the new species.

This is is the basic engine of species production. Sea squirts for instance, come from a viable
cross between a primitive worm type animal or sponge, and a plant. That is why, sea squirts
make some compounds found normally, only in plants. The further away two species before
crossing, obviously the less likely will be the chances of success, but the more important will be
the out coming species, to changing the course of evolution.
The increase of radiation, environmental and biological turbulence, leads to a huge increase in
the amount of genetic diversity. A large part of the increase in mutations, come from the large
increase in viral infections, because of the general weakness of the biosphere.
Since Lamarkianism has been rejected out of hand without continuing investigation, I would just
for Irony's sake, propose that there is some or a lot of individual passing on traits produced by
environmental experiences or even by decisions made by the organism.

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