Let's get to the heart of the matter:
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Originally Posted by charles brough
This article insensed me because it was all hype. It shows either how far Internet science news sites will go to over-promote their stories and/or what lengths researchers will go to make their negative findings seem like something positive.
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The hype is that they have found we are still experiencing evolution. This is desired by them and others only because, otherwise, their social theory has no explanation for all the change in human society/culture occuring in the last some 200,000 years! You read it and you get the impression the mystery is solved.
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What is their 'social theory'? I gathered that the article was suggesting that biological evolution is continuing and is in fact accelerating.
I do believe that biological evolution is still occurring, but I would have to read the studies to be convinced that it has been accelerating. Although if you look at the trends in our recent history, it certainly seems like things are speeding up. I believe that most of this speeding up is from technological advances, working much like an inverted pyramid.
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But, alas, down at the bottom of the story you read that the evolution they are referring to is some SHRINKAGE of the brain case, slightly smaller teeth and weaker skeletal structure---and slight metabolic changes!
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Evolution does not need to be "positive" (ie good) change, it is adaptability.
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Not only is significant further evolution NOT occuring, but it is not even desirable. If it can happen, it proves the point of the Social Darwinists and, hence, the issue of super and inferior races! By genetic selection, Hitler COULD have create a super race!
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I do not see the correlation you are making.
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But we are NOT evolving biologically. What has been happening over the tens of thousands of years since we developed language is the non-biological evolution of RELIGIONS. A separate type of natural selection process is occuring with them that slowly eliminates the older and outgrown ones and in that way carries us along with our growing total human cultural heritage.
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I would argue that religions are a bit off topic, but it's hard to make that point since you started this thread. So I must ask you, what is the correlation between a new study on biological evolution of humans, bad science, and the evolution (or lack thereof) of religion?
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The process has gradually accelerated, but not enough, I fear, to deal with the present ominous state of things . . .
charles, HOME PAGE
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So you are saying that an evolution in religion would end the "present ominous state of things"? If so, I agree that it would certainly help to ameliorate certain tragedies in the world. Fortunately, societal (r)evolutions tend to occur dramatically and in much less time than biological ones.
