MATT: I might poke you and say that "Natural Selection explains the whole of life, as far as we can tell." > > And I will poke you back. I quoted it as an instance of a famous scientist trying to hoodwink the public, and I thought you had seen the light! Oh misery! Natural Selection explains why some things survive and others don't. It does not explain how those things got here in the first place.-I thought we settled all of this. NS is a final arbiter. it creates nothing.