Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
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be rigidly destroyed. This preserva¬ 
tion of favorable individual differ¬ 
ences and variations, and the 
destruction of those which are 
injurious, I have called 6 Natural 
Selection’ or the * Survival of the 
Fittest.’ ” (“Origin of Species,” 
p. 74.) May I interject here the 
suggestion that if this statement 
were strictly true, certain species 
of moth that have the habit of play¬ 
ing with the fire should long since 
have become extinct, for that this 
habit is highly injurious is beyond 
question 1 Again he says: “It may 
metaphorically be said that natural 
selection is daily and hourly scru¬ 
tinizing, throughout the world, the 
slightest variations, rejecting all 
those that are bad, preserving and 
adding up all that are good; silently 
and insensibly working whenever 
or wherever opportunity offers, at 
the improvement of each organic 
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