TOW #22: Natural Selection

         In a piece on The Onion, the "massacre" of natural selection. It proclaims that a total of 38 quadrillion organisms have been killed due to natural selection. It explains how many helpless organisms "were wiped out in cold blood ” due to the "rampage" that the "killer" went on. This article utilizes juxtaposition of the process of natural selection to the "the work of a hardened, practiced killer.”  It refers to this natural process as taking the lives of many helpless organisms. The article also refers to how the process of natural selection works by addressing how it attacks the most vulnerable organisms, which, like natural selection, is what happens. It also references how these attacks are bound to continue and that no organism is safe. This article was interesting because it showed a new perspective on a commonality in science. Since the discovery of natural selection, most people have always viewed it as it was presented, whereas this article presents a more gruesome outlook on the process. The author uses the juxtaposition of a killer to demonstrate how this process has killed more organisms than anything else. The article itself was also somewhat of a fallacy because it falsely compared two things that are not really similar, but could be if looked at in that perspective. I enjoyed this because it gave me a new view of a scientific discovery and also gave me a good laugh at the comparisons.