Survival of the fittest is a
description of the reproductive process, or success at reproduction. Basically,
the fittest are those who reproduce most proliferently, or leave copies of
themselves over the generations (Spencer 1864) . As the reader can
see, that parallels the natural reproductive selection which is similar but
different in each of the species. For instance, elephants have the same process
as mammals, but the gestation period is much longer. They produce in the same
manner but with different frequencies. They were on the verge of not surviving until
people establish regulations to protect them.
On the other end of the spectrum
are mice. They too have the same process, but gestation is of shorter duration.
Which are the fittest; mice, men, or elephants?
If merely making copies of
themselves makes the fittest, perhaps insects are the fittest. Anyone who has
been to the tropics understand that the proliferation and irritation of insects.
In evolutional theory, perhaps mosquitoes are the fittest. Unarmed, people are
less fit that mosquitos. Otherwise, humans have intelligence; they avoid and
fight mosquitos with inventions.
The ability to copy their own
species quickly and numerously seems to be a poor definition of “fittest,”
although without men around to disturb the natural process, perhaps insects are
the fittest! Intelligence and invention, then, disturbs natural selection. Is
not human kind a species? Why should mankind exclude themselves from the
environmental and biological processes?
Environmentalists consider human
life as disturbers of the environment. What considerate people have done to
help the environment is minimized. Humans
are known by their carbon footprint, not by their superiority.
The human species seems to be
excluded from even being the fittest! Modern technology allows the unborn to be
terminated before they become a problem to the environment, just as the eggs of
insects are sprayed or oiled to suffocate. Human life is considered less fit and
should not even survive! Environmentalists attribute extinction to the human
species.
The world has made the human
species the enemy of creation. In a spiritual sense, perhaps they are, but physically,
humans seem to be the fittest of the fit.
Evolutionists have different “fittest”
species. Numbering and proclivity make smaller organs most fit. During the dark
ages, it is estimated that from “75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and
peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351” died from the plague. (ABC/Reuters 2008) . The cause of the plaque was some
disease carried by fleas and transmitted distances by rats. The black death was
powerful, but who were the fittest: bacteria, fleas, rats, or humans. The
latter three species died, but not before the bacteria demonstrated their
power. Whatever species that was, seemed to be the fittest using Spencer’s
definition.
Unknown is whether the bacteria of
the plague died out or not (or other microbes.) On the other hand, fleas, rats,
and humans survive to this day!
Who engineered the elimination of
the plague? Not the fleas nor rats, but only the humans. They used their
intelligence to discover what was causing the spread of the disease, and by
doing so, demonstrated their superiority.
Time and again, the human species
have shown their ability to outwit, outsmart, and outlast the other species. (Thanks
goes to the television reality show, Survivor,
for a better definition of “fittest.”) Fitness is a trait of the human species.
At times, they were also the most unfit, as they devolved into mere beasts.
More on that shortly.
Fitness seems to be based on physical
attributes. After all, can a mouse subdue and elephant? Can a kitty intimidate
a rhinoceros? Maybe a cat can, but who knows? The point is that fitness is more
than structure or agility. After all, Jaws in James Bond movies, although quite
fit, was often outmaneuvered by the quick and cunning Mr. Bond.
In the beginning were different species.
Scripture refers to the species as “kinds.”
On the third day of creation, God brought forth or generated, “grass, and herb
yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in
itself, after his kind.” [i] On
the fifth day, “God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every
winged fowl after his kind.” [ii]
On the sixth day, “God made the
beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind,” [iii]and
“God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them.” [iv] On
the alternate days, God continued with the creation of things which are not
alive but accommodate life, as well as the timepiece for life – the sun.
God dictated that all animal life was
to reproduce. They were all made “fit” according to Spencerian understanding. The
purpose of all life is to make copies of itself – to be fit. God saw that
everything that He crated was “very good.” [v] To
be honest, the other animal species did not introduce evil; mankind did!
God made mankind in His image. [vi]
God is the epitome of “good” as well as might. He also is the Great Mind that
made the Creation. Because mankind was designed the fittest, God gave man
dominion over the other species. [vii] The human species were designed to be the
fittest, and civilization existing to this day demonstrates that God endowed mankind
with that.
Many have seen the series of movies
about The Planet of the Apes. Hypothetically,
apes became the fittest because mankind abused them. With fitness comes
responsibility. God gave three commandments to His fittest creatures: (1)
Multiply and subdue the earth, [viii]
(2) dress and keep the garden, [ix]and
(3) submit to His authority. [x]
It may be that Adam and Eve
pleasured rather than multiplied as commanded. [xi] Furthermore,
Adam and Eve dressed themselves after they pleasured, [xii]
and they dishonored God by assuming the roles belonging only to God. [xiii]
Shortly after they were created the fittest, they showed themselves unfit!
“Dressing and keeping the garden”
is caring for the Creation and the creatures therein. Jesus was the Tree of
Life – the Centerpiece of the Garden. [xiv] Foremost,
mankind was to love Jesus. Jesus is the Tree of Life. [xv]
Jesus is God manifested to the senses of mankind. [xvi]
His representation is the visible tree. God is symbolized by the root – the unseen
part of the tree – the part of the tree which generates “good fruit.” [xvii]
The root of the tree uses hidden
water from below the ground to nourish the tree and bring forth fruit. There
was no rain in the Garden of Eden, and the waters of life sprang forth from the
earth. The fruits of the Tree of Life were twelve, and they were from the
Spirit of God – from the living waters. [xviii]
According to Adam’s vocation – to dress
and keep the Garden – loving God and all the species made him fittest. Indeed,
lovingness is a characteristic of fitness.
Some will say, but there were no
other humans (trees) in the Garden. They were there, but were unseen, because they
had yet to be manifested. Adam and Eve had not yet made copies of themselves,
but souls were in the spiritual realm of the Garden ready for mankind to copy
themselves.[xix] Human life is sacred because only the fittest
of the species had living souls. [xx]
What makes mankind the fittest is the ability to care for their own species,
other species, and God Himself.
In fact, until love is extinguished,
the species - humankind and animal kind - will exist. When hatred overcomes the
world, none of the species will exist on Earth. Existence, then, depends on mankind
and love. Mankind is the dominant species and were designed the fittest; that is
until evil revealed itself!
The reader may not appreciate the
ideas that mankind is the fittest, but that species is on whom the world
depends. Unfortunately, at times the fittest is morally the least fit! For
instance, how many other species entertain themselves by observing others
having coitus? The fittest creatures are oftentimes the most decadent. Next,
the reader will learn of the destruction
of the unfittest.
[i]
Gen 1:12
[ii]
Gen 1:21
[iii]
Gen 1:25
[iv]
Gen 1:27
[v]
Gen 1:31
[vi]
Gen 1:27
[vii]
Gen 1:26
[viii]
Gen 1:28
[ix]
Gen 2:15
[x]
Gen 2:17
[xi]
Gen 3:6
[xii]
Gen 3:7
[xiii]
Gen 3:5
[xiv]
Gen 3:3
[xv]
Rev 22;2
[xvi]
John 1-2, 14
[xvii]
Mat 3:10
[xviii]
Rev 22:2
[xix]
Ephes 1:4
[xx]
Gen 2:7
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