Natural selection, Divine selection

Natural selection
Natural selection by the survival of the fittest is cornerstone of evolution theory still today on the lines suggested by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (1859) .

Nature provides variation in genetic offspring and eliminates those that do not fit to the changing environment. Environmental pressure on living organisms is driving force in the suggested mechanism explaining biodiversity.  Genetic mutations provide raw materials for the selection process between favoured and doomed organisms groups. Some species will perish and others live and multiply. Natural catastrophes do interrupt the chain of evolution of organisms creating new groups of biological raw materials for the selection process and new rules for survival of the fittest.


Divine selection
Divine selection is matter of faith rather than natural sciences. Faith is a crucial element in Divine selection while Fate is more evident in Natural selection.

Although divine selections concerns all life forms but here we are looking at the species homo sapiens sapiens. Humans are the raw material for the selection process that decides who will perish and who will live.

Humans live in very different environments that affects this selection but there are some common elements for all humanity. Divine selection takes place during the life time of humans but becomes apparent to all only at the end of this aeon. The selection means that some humans will perish utterly and some will live forever in the new environment God of Israel will create in the future.

The differences to Natural selection are many. For divine selection is not based on survival of the fittest or on qualities of the human but rather on a fixed quota system that includes a given number of humans who will never die. The humans not included in this quota of divine selection will face second death which is eternal.


Predestination
Predestination is a Christian doctrine that has been very difficult even to the best of the best among the theologians. In principle, it asks is Divine selection at all related to environmental factors and human decisions on the pressures of life and survival. Or is it purely a subjective decision already made before the creation of the humans.

Different Christian denominations vary in their faith in God the Selector - some saying that He only chooses those who are predestined to be saved while others speak of those predestined to perish. But there is logically no big difference between the two.

For if only those are selected that God chooses than no matter what the others do they will perish, right?

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, even as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
having predestined us to be His own adopted children by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in His Beloved
Ephesians 1:1-5 KJ21

Natural selection is rough but brings good results as we all can see.

Divine selection is much rougher and brings even better results as we shall see.