#Fossils

Evolutionism is the grand theory that life’s current forms are the survivors of a death game played by relentless chance and ruthless selection. Scientists praise its majesty as the triumph of reason, while religious critics scowl at it as a meaning-stealing diatribe. In textbooks natural selection wears a veneer of elegance, yet in reality it is a macabre banquet where survival odds are everything. Fossils stand as tombstones of the losers, and genes narrate the bragging rights of the victors. Ultimately, this theory is a carnival of irony orchestrated by the two reluctant hosts: randomness and inevitability.