... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

No one-liner can ever be optimal.

We pass through this world but once.

You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that at least some of that variation is inherited - and the syllogistic inference is natural selection.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades.