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The importance of evolution in our daily lives cannot be underestimated. The concept of the survival of the fittest, which had the most practical appeal to common people, has been applied indiscriminately in a great many nonbiological areas of human life. As a slogan, it fit perfectly with the religious maxim that “God helps those that help themselves” and was used to justify individual adventures in politics and commerce almost from the beginning of the controversy over evolution. We speak about the self-made man and attribute individual financial and social success to the inexorable workings of the principle of evolutionary change. The estimates we make of our accomplishments are couched in terms of “progress,” and we judge the vitality of our societies not on the number of wise and compassionate people we produce, but on our gross national product and a constantly expanding economy." (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)p73