See Reason: Looking at the World through Science and Reason

I'm Doing Darwin a Disservice Most of my days are spent at work programming. As 50% of the entire workforce and the sole programmer (though not for long - we welcome our first developer hire July 5!), I have a lot of work to do. When I program, I usually listen to punk and metal on Pandora, and today while watching a new data analysis process I was debugging cranking along in AWS, a lyric from the NOFX song " The Idiots are Taking Over " struck me: Darwin's rollin over in his coffin the fittest are surviving much less often I've listened to this song a million times, and it's always good for a whipping up a little anti-conservative, anti-religious-establishment furor in me. NOFX really nails that in some of their songs (see also Leaving Jesusland ), but that one line hit me in a new way today. I'm not very evolutionarily fit. What Do We Mean by "Fitness?" Somewhat subconsciously, I've always considered myself extremely fit (I'