Misconceptions of Christian theology

[Aractus]

Beyond that, I think you're still missing the point; what's advantageous for the individual, assuming it allows for a greater survivability, sculpts what happens to the species, albeit in miniscule ways. Evolution has no tendency toward helping a species survive, just look at all the extinct animals for proof of that.

I think you're missing the point. "Miniscule" advantages make no difference. Or to be more specific, as I've consistently said, they do not provide enough of an advantage to drive evolution.

Think about it this way. DNA is already versatile. You only have to look at identical twins in humans - some are very much the same, some are very different to each other, easily as different as two humans with different DNA altogether. DNA doesn't determine a lot of things. Education for instance, that's determined well outside of the control of DNA. Strength is another - while it's true DNA can provide some help, going to the gym and training will win out against the so-called "help" that you get from your genes.

And it's not just humans of course, it's all animals.

The Cuckoo bird flies in the face of evolution. It needs to do way too much work for the benefit of the egg swapping, in fact it does so much work that it'd be much better off just building its own nests and raising its own chics. Yet it is too stupid at this point to realize that this would be an advantage to it, so it continues doing something highly inefficient and disadvantaged evolutionarily.