Intellectual Darwinism is based around the belief that only the strongest rational argument survives the test of time, i.e, if a new idea becomes popular, the amount of people who believed the old thing will wane until the old idea essentially becomes "wrong". An argument against this idea is the view that the old ideas still have still merit, and that just because something is newer, that does not mean it is suddenly better.
A 2006 article by Jason Menard suggests that intellectual Darwinism does not result in the weak ideas being culled. There are some arguments that suggest modern technology is making society worse off that it was or would have been.In an article called "Intellectual Darwinism", written by Daniel Swanson, he explains "there is an intellectual Darwinism among us that believes if only all that can be said or thought is permitted, right thinking will out and the best will come to the fore."
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