Natural Selection Is Not Evolution.

The Academic Mind, As We Know, Is Sometimes Capable Of Assuming An Aggressive Attitude. The Official Mind, On The Contrary, Is And Has To Be, Expert In The Art Of Self-defence.

It Was Darwin's Chief Contribution, Not Only To Biology But To The Whole Of Natural Science, To Have Brought To Light A Process By Which Contingencies A Priori Improbable, Are Given, In The Process Of Time, An Increasing Probability, Until It Is Their Non-occurrence Rather Than Their Occurrence Which Becomes Highly Improbable.

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Natural Selection Is A Mechanism For Generating An Exceedingly High Degree Of Improbability.

If One In Twenty Does Not Seem High Enough Odds, We May, If We Prefer It, Draw The Line At One In Fifty (the 2 Per Cent. Point), Or One In A Hundred (the 1 Per Cent. Point). Personally, The Writer Prefers To Set A Low Standard Of Significance At The 5 Per Cent. Point, And Ignore Entirely All Results Which Fail To Reach This Level. A Scientific Fact Should Be Regarded As Experimentally Established Only If A Properly Designed Experiment Rarely Fails To Give This Level Of Significance.