For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life
there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous
random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not
remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a
hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all
possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to
buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a
house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind
and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful
and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a
higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."
J.W.N. Sullivan