Darwin, revisited

Robert Dorit writes that when he reread On the Origin of the Species recently, he "was struck by a subtler blow the book delivers to human hubris." He continues:

The Origin remains, even in the 21st century, a radical work, which argues that the fundamental forces driving life on this planet occur on timescales that render the span of a human life insignificant. Furthermore, although the effects of natural selection are there for all to see, its daily operation is almost completely hidden from view. Both our life spans and our five senses are inadequate to the task of comprehension: The most powerful mechanism of organic change lies well beyond our everyday experience.