In my evolution class We used Evodots website to see how pre

In my evolution class, We used Evodots website to see how predation occur in a population to see how species or a certain species evolve over time. after this exercise, we are asked to answer the following question, and I have no idea what it means Question: \"In light of what we\'ve discussed and what you\'ve seen in this exercise, evaluate the following quote from Ann Coulter\" Quote: \"The second prong of Darwin\'s theory is generally nothing but a circular statement: through the process of natural selection, the fittest survive. Who are the fittest? The ones who survive! Why look-it happens every time! The survival of the fittest would be a joke if it weren\'t part of the belief system of a fanatical cult infesting the scientific community. The beauty of having a scientific theory that\'s a tautology is that it can\'t be disproved\" please help me out with this. Thank you

Solution

In this discussion you basically have to prove or disprove that the natural selection and survial of the fittest are just not tautology and have some meaning. tautology is a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of it\'s logical form. Basically we are arguing that its not the survival of the fittest always,

I would be presenting a few points suggesting that the terms used by darwin like survival of fittest is just a descriptive lablel to refer to the theory he was trying to put across:

1. it is not a tautology because there are characters generated by genetic drift, and they also help in survival.

2. it is not a tautology because, survival of fittest is also known as natural selection.

3. it is not a tautology because it can predict the events that are going to take place in the future, it could sometime predict the results of some experiments,

4. it is not a tautology because fit characters means the ones that have been tested in the real world and thus have been adapted by organisms, it is not a defined set of characters that we are calling fittest.