It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being
1 - Growth with reproduction;
2 - Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction;
3 - Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse;
4 - a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms.
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Darwin left ROOM FOR "GOD" and ROOM FOR nature!
1-2-3-4:
Which is conflict consensus pattern change.
Which is peacock lion porpoise owl
11 years ago
3 comments:
1 - Growth with reproduction - would be considered change as well as a porpoise type.
2 - Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction would be a patten as well as an owl.
3 - Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse would be a conflict as well as a peacock.
4 - a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms would be consensus as well as a lion.
Darwin's fourth law (principle) would reflect conflict because any organism faces competition amongst its own species and in its ecosystem. It is the conflict that propels evolution in a species.
Growth with reproduction would have to be consensus because without the acceptance of the environment's conditions, the organism would not be able to reproduce. The conditions of "growth" is to reproduce offspring and survive.
Variability or variation, has to deal with change. Darwin's central rule is that a variation occurs in a species and that change can be an advantage or disadvantage for the organism.
Finally, pattern is inferred with inheritance. The "fit" traits of a species are passed on to the next generation so that the trait may serve its role in nature.
my take on it - in agreement with Oceanbreeze and Owl Gone Foul on some but not all:
1. Growth with reproduction: change, Peacock
2. Inheritance is order, procedure, Owl.
3. Variability in experience, use and disuse: this is what dolphins are talking about. Life doesn't "hit" everyone the same way, so we need those lovin' Dolphins to remind us
4. Struggle: struggle to survive is the goal. Lion-land.
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