"Houston, you're in trouble down there on earth. We can see it all happening from up here...!"
The trouble just may be the way Darwin's theory of evolution has been evolving lately. Our good evolutionary biologists have begun running amuck with study after study insisting that most everything we are and do is because of some evolutionary codes. I mean, don't we have anything ourselves to say about it?
Well, of course we do, they admit. There's more to our species than just our brain circuits and genetic pools. And yet, their exhaustive research studies sometime don't leave very much besides our evolved circuits and genes. Consider the latest research.
At the University of Sussex, research on cats concludes they have evolved clever ways in which to get food from their owners. "They meow like a hungry infant, and so we respond," reports Karen McComb. Does this suggest both kitties and kids have biologically learned how to manipulate us regardless of any deeper attachments!
At the University of Helsinki, an evolutionary biology study of more than 10,000 females in Wisconsin finds that "beautiful women tend to have 16% more children than their less-attractive counterparts." Does this mean evolution -- at least in Wisconsin -- is leading to a more beautiful population regardless of any deeper factors?
In Washington DC -- where even evolution is subject to politics -- critics of the President's nominee for Surgeon General, Sharon Salomon, say she is "too chubby to be a role model for health." Apparently evolution helped deal her a 5 foot 2 inch 170 pound body which simply won't do in our you-can-never-be-too-rich-or-too-thing culture!
Now if Charles Darwin were still here with us today, one wonders what he might say to his run-amuck disciples. Just like Abraham, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammad might. Perhaps something like: "Come on guys, lets not mess up a good thing...!"
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I don't know about the other guys, but I sure know that Jesus would be disappointed in his followers. Why can't the human race ever get anything just right??
ReplyDelete"In Washington DC -- where even evolution is subject to politics -- critics of the President's nominee for Surgeon General, Sharon Salomon, say she is "too chubby to be a role model for health."
ReplyDeleteWhy must we all (mainly women) be defined by a number on a damn scale??? Doesn't anyone care anymore about what's INSIDE a person? You may be absolutely beautiful on the outside, but nothing but an empty vessel on the inside....and sometimes not a very nice empty vessel!
I also agree with the previous comment about the human race.
We don't have forever on this planet and my fear is that we won't see it right in our lifetime!
Sadly true...we "don't have forever"...neither as individuals nor as societies...what Genesis was trying to explain is that the Fall of Man in Eden somehow involved the disconnection between our intellect (good guy) and our will (bad guy)..however a person wishes to understand all this, most people realize we're an imperfect species that needs all the help we can get...take your choice: A messiah, a brain, a computer, a drug, or maybe just some old- fashioned religion!
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