When Philo tries to contradict what Cleanthes has to say, he cannot explain why our world is so much better than it needs to be. The theory thought that Philo tries to present does sound a lot like Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Philo thinks that one reason why our world might be ordered is because all the things that were disordered did not survive. Which in other words means that the fittest things survived, and the things that had more order are the ones that survived and are the most fit. I think that Philo’s objections both succeed and fail at the same time. I think they succeed and make sense when he talks about how he just has faith in God without any proof or reason. That is how we as Christians are, we have never been to
