Survival of the fittest is supposed to be the process of evolution. However, this process is hard to find. A Cheetah hunting, killing and eating a gazelle may be given as an example of survival of the fittest. If the Cheetah was practicing this belief, he would kill the whole herd of gazelles. This would show that he is more fit to survive. On the contrary the cheetah is thinking about a meal. He kills a single gazelle and eats it. When he gets full, other animals and birds come and finish the gazelle. They are not wasteful with food.
The survival of sheep is impressive. Compared to many animals, sheep are rather defenseless. Neither are they very smart. How have they existed through ions of time? They are an amazing story.
Some animals are territorial - they will fight to protect their territory. This may or many not result in injury. Injured or not, they survive. They do not fight to their death. Dogs may have fierce fights over a female that is in heat. The losers may be bloody, but they do not fight to their death. They survive anyway.
Adolph Hitler sought to establish a superior race of human beings. Jesse Owens answered this belief in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. He was the best sprinter, winning gold medals and he was far from white. This is not an example of evolution.
Any time you turn on the world news, there is a war happening somewhere. But this may not be an example of survival of the fittest. The less fit person may be pulling the trigger and the more fit person may be on the receiving end of the weapon.
During a sporting event, an announcer may flippantly say "survival of the fittest". He does not mean that he wants some of the athletes to die or not survive. We actually want everyone that loses to survive. Simply saying "survival of the fittest" over and over does not make it a reality. It is often talked about but difficult to find in the world.
In Genesis 1:20-22, "...God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And 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: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth." God could have said let's see if these birds and animals can survive and evolve into something good. But he didn't say that. He said they were "good".
Genesis 1:24&25 says, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And 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: and God saw that it was good. Again God could have said, "Let's see if these animals can survive and evolve into something good." But instead he said that the animals were "good".
Genesis 1:26-31, "...God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good..." Again God did not mention their survival rate of if they would evolve into something good. God said everything was "good".
Survival of the fittest is part of our education and our society. But it is more of an idea than a part of reality.
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