"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean "That gene was gorgeous like Mr. Universe, so he won!" It means "Life threw something at a wall and this is what stuck. It died less in the face of actual real world conditions."
After you winnow away all the failed stuff, you have stuff that works. Do it for millions of years and amazingly complex and elegant stuff can emerge from the process.
"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean "That gene was gorgeous like Mr. Universe, so he won!" It means "Life threw something at a wall and this is what stuck. It died less in the face of actual real world conditions."
After you winnow away all the failed stuff, you have stuff that works. Do it for millions of years and amazingly complex and elegant stuff can emerge from the process.