ABSTRACT
The attempts to escape from Darwinism's dilemma all fall into one or other of three types. These can be usefully labelled "the Cave Man way out", "the Hard Man", and "the Soft Man". All three types are hardy perennials, and have been with us, in one version or another, ever since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. If Darwin's theory of evolution is true, no species can ever escape from the process of natural selection. T. H. Huxley has even managed to burden Darwin with an absurdity which, though it was strongly suggested by Darwin's insistence on words like "struggle" and "battle", is by no means inherent in Darwinism itself. The Cave Man way out of Darwinism's dilemma is in reality no way out at all: it is self-contradictory. The Soft Man is certainly the most appealing of the three ways out of Darwinism's dilemma. In fact the politics of Darwinian Hard Men fill Soft Man with horror.
