NB idea of progressive improvement as life forms get bigger.. eg evidence that human face have special processing [cp cheshire cat illusion/ and say separation of small from taste which presuambly aren't distinguished in one cell life Dawkins: replication is the essence of life. But a replicating molecule also needs [1] coding for characteristics/ some way to handle digital information **another file on separation eg of smell and taste separately evolution -survival of the fittest? no. there's no ultimate equiliubrium. if one generation of people breeds fast it doesn't prove they are fitter. If you feed maggots on a carcase, you get huge numbers. but then they die off -life is a huge struggle, effort, every survivor must work hard, must compete, must outperfrom No. better adapted types find it easier. Imagine a poor reader b a er a flunt reader glamnces: bkaed beans. less effort -if you don't believe in god you have no reason to survive no. it's inbuilt. any life froms which are suicidal will die out. though if it helps oithers, the net effect can be positive -evolutionary theory shows that people want to have the maximum number of children. no. there are counteracting things eg food suply -evolutionists think we decended from pond scum unlikely. At the begiinning pf life magnesium metabolsim etc we descend from motile creatures -[lots on making a monkey out of me/ don't see dogs turning itno cats -jewish analogy: pointer dogs. cheating seabirds with shells. use of language like an ovipositor injecting eggs --------------------------- After Mendel died three jews began claiming they were responsible for Mendel’s laws. In remedy an English gentleman named William Bateson translated Mendel’s forgotten manuscript into English (1900). Shortly thereafter, the three jews began claiming they had ‘rediscovered’ Mendel’s Laws.