Christopher Hitchens On religious solipsism

(title) Well 98.9% of all the species that have ever been on earth are extinct now And whatever set this in motion, kept it going Because of evolution and natural selection which we have so self evidently evolved is a pitiless one and doesn't make many discriminations or chooses which species is to survive or which to be condemned Steven J. Gould's in his wonderful book on the Burgess Shale which I have and I'll make an allusion or two makes a very telling and I sometimes think chilling analogy He says "if you could put the tree" or he says "more like a bush of evolution"