Being selected against is different than not being born in the first place.
Agree. My point is that those designs with less fitness were not shaped by evolutionary process on that generation in which they decreased in fitness. It was a random process or whatnot. I’m not talking about all the designs that came to be, or to all beings who were or could have been born. I’m referring to what evolution does to design, and evolution does not make a design decrease in fitness, even though it may allow other process to do so. I think I’m not being clear here. Once we concentrate on things the evolutionary process actively does, in opposition to what may happen or what have happened, it should be straightforward that there are no decreases in fitness.
Agree. My point is that those designs with less fitness were not shaped by evolutionary process on that generation in which they decreased in fitness. It was a random process or whatnot. I’m not talking about all the designs that came to be, or to all beings who were or could have been born. I’m referring to what evolution does to design, and evolution does not make a design decrease in fitness, even though it may allow other process to do so. I think I’m not being clear here. Once we concentrate on things the evolutionary process actively does, in opposition to what may happen or what have happened, it should be straightforward that there are no decreases in fitness.