Sleepy240

Evolution can absolutely be ushered along by outside sources such as technology. I mean think about it this way, if you took a third world country that is poverty striken, and disease ridden, then you give them the means to cure themselves and provide wealth. I am talking all the medications and technologies that we have at zero cost, how quickly do you think they would turn around? MUCH faster than the decades it could (or even longer perhaps) take for them to turn it around themselves.

Technology forces our hand in so much of our life as it is, evolution is typically viewed as a SMALL and GRADUAL change. With some of the technology we have and will have in the future plan to skip over evolving and just replace what could be grown with metal and robotics.

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theicecreamdan

Evolution isn't going to be stopped by anything. It may change the direction that it takes us, but the changes created by evolution are a product of the imperfections of life. Technology can't replace our imperfections.

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rc1honda

It's funny to hear you guys talk about technology as if it were some kind of wild animal growing in some distant jungle and we just sit at home hoping it it doesn't grow claws...

Technology is moved forward by people. Engineers, clinical researchers, scientists of all types. New tech is actually very transparent and a lot of information is available to layman as long as you can understand it.


Granted the government, and large corporation hold a lot of new tech classified. But the foundation for most technology is available to the public. Whether it be stem cells and cloning. Or propulsion, and electromagnetism. There is data available for all of us to study and understand.

Technology is a great thing. I see huge advances from year to year in my profession and it really is exciting.

And BTW if you believe in evlouton then you should know that though it seems evolution takes a long time to operate it often makes huge leaps forward completely skipping steps and surprising science. Such as the jump fro instinct to consciousness.

theicecreamdan

That's somewhat contradictory. People these days are too lazy to understand more than one profession, if that many.

Honestly I sorta hoped this thread was about black holes or the big bang.

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