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[freeztar]

Originally Posted by charles brough

Freeztar,

You are correct if you are saying that I stated we are NOT evolving and then, in my last posts I said we ARE! I should have stated in the title that we are not evolving biologically and that what biological changes that do occur are not necessarily beneficial or lasting. All that is evolving is our "culltural systems." That is, the whole ideological systems like Hinduism, Christendom, Islam and all the earlier mainstream religions that built their own civilizations. There is a natural selection process going on between them that differs from biological processes.

My whole point in the thread is to emphasize that the means to understanding how we, as Homo Sapeins Sapeins, have taken over the world is to focus not on biological evolution but the natural selection process going on between societies and how to define what a society is. Without that process going on, we would still be few in number and living in stone age conditions.

Hey Charles,

Thanks for the clarification.

I agree with you on the premise that "modern man" is more culturally evolved than biologically evolved, but at the same time it is hard, if not impossible, to qualify/quantify that.