Natural selection is a better statistician than humans and accounts for the survival of intricate features that appear trivial.

“The point is that natural selection is very very fussy. It's very very intricate in its in its choice. Far more than we we we even know about. We are poor judges of what's important for survival.”

Natural selection relies on random individual mutations as the necessary variation that allows for evolutionary change.

“If there's no variation, if there's no mutation, there's no way for natural selection to happen.”

Natural selection acts by favoring traits that increase an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a given environment.

“It's the best fit, not the most fit. So if our environment changes in a way where being super intelligent doesn't actually help us that much, then suddenly we're not going to be selecting for that. We're not going to be evolving in that direction.”

He maintains that natural selection can fully explain biological design and teleology without requiring an intelligent designer.

“the whole point is not that there's not design the whole point is that there need not be a master designer that is you can explain all this design all the seeming te ology without a designer that's the whole point right”