If Darwin were alive today ...

[Saddle bum]

............ he would believe that the Human Race had sidestepped his theory.

A generation of chavs now live and reproduce at a rate which will bring about the decline of the human species, they could eventually enslave the brightest and creative, demanding to be kept in a lifestyle they cannot create for themselves.

The weak and feeble minded not only survive, aided by and to the detriment of the fittest, but they prosper by going into politics.

[Kermit power]

Darwin's theory is basically the survival of the fittest though, isn't it?

Those fittest to exploit the benefits system not only survive, they thrive on it. If we changed the system, then you'd have a different group becoming the strongest. It might not be palatable at present, but I don't think it undermines Darwin's theories.

[G'kar]

He would be 200 years old and questioning all his work, and everything he ever knew.

[hairykrishna]

You misunderstand natural selection/survival of the fittest. By fittest Darwin meant "better adapted for immediate, local environment". This does not mean that the traits of the strongest/smartest necessarily get carried forward to future generations.

[Blown2CV]

Traits such as being a chav don't emerge and become populous through being the strongest or the fittest, and they definitely don't endure just because they are popular at one time. Unless being a chav is an evolutionarily stable strategy, it will only be a matter of time before that group is wiped out. Genes for being a chav may result in strategies such as not having a job, stealing, illegally claiming disability benefit and these propagate because the these strategies are effective in the short term because they exploit the behavior of others in the environment. However as chavs become more common, behaviour _should_ emerge in other groups of individuals that capitalise and exploits the behaviour of chavs for their own end, and the chav population will decrease. Or we could just sterilise em