[Doctor Stochastic]

Why does the organism care if it's species continues?

It doesn't. All evolutionary theory says is that those (species) who do not do what is necessary to survive are less likely to do so. There's no "want" or "desire" or "need"; it's just a big filter. Mutation proposes; selection disposes.

[JCEccles]

Your complete and utter faith in natural selection is analogous to the complete and utter faith that 19th Century physicists had in Newton's clockwork universe.

Someday biology will have to make the same quantum leap forward into the information age that physics made into the quantum mechanics age in the 1930s.

When it does, ID will be agent that midwifed the leap.

[grey_whiskers]

It doesn't. All evolutionary theory says is that those (species) who do not do what is necessary to survive are less likely to do so. There's no "want" or "desire" or "need"; it's just a big filter. Mutation proposes; selection disposes.

Like sudden-death overtime. It's better to be lucky than good. :-)

[shuckmaster]

Mutation proposes; selection disposes.

Nice line!