WASHINGTON -- "Descended from the apes!" exclaimed the wife of the bishop of Worcester. "Let us hope that it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known."
An American majority resists such an annoying notion, endorsing the proposition that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years." Still, evolution is a fact and its mechanism is natural selection: Creatures with variations especially suited to their environmental situation have more descendants than do less well-adapted creatures.
And the point he makes is, Congress is passing bills trying to outlaw natural selection. The Endangered Species Act attempts to protect threatened species against both artificial and natural threats to their existence.
(And it's interesting to see the storm of comments railing against evolution. Guys, that's not his point.)
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