First of all...what do you mean by "Darwinism"?

Do you mean evolution by the process of natural selection?

If so, then think abut it, and you'll see that Natural Selection isn't "based" on a "weak and superficial understanding of causality".

In fact, it's not "based" on "causality" at all.

Nowhere does it matter *what* *caused* the natural selection to happen... what matters is that *something* happened which caused something to stop existing, such that only those left unaffected are what's left behind.

Who in the world ever said that the Theory of Natural Selection was dependent on what particular process happened that stopped something else from existing?

The only thing that matters is that something did or did-not happen that caused something else to stop existing, such that there is now left behind the "survivors".

Maybe the "cause" was a blast of radiation that killed almost everything, or maybe the "cause" was an absence of water such that only a few odd exceptions capable of surviving dehydration would continue to exist while all others stopped existing, but it doesn't matter what the cause was... something did or did not happen to cause some things to stop existing while allowing for other things to continue to exist.

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