Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth

An anonymous reader writes "Reuters is running an interesting story on how the use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys has caused a physical mutation in young people's hands. The use of the thumb is a deviation from the use of the index finger..."

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Lift weights and your offspring will be in shape!

[HanzoSan]

Thats right, by becoming a body builder now, you will help keep your childrens children in shape.

Then they can all go to the olympics and become profesisonal rich atheletes.

Evolution is not understood

[HanzoSan]

Because no one knows what controls evolution, and saying the mysterious forces of nature control it, is as silly as saying the universe was created by a random big bang.

Nothing is random, if logic and science teaches you anything, thats what you learn first.

Second nothing is absolute, meaning nothing is for sure.

Third if its proven our actions control revolution, its saying we with our brains control our own evolution, so does this mean monks will be the most evolved because they spend their lives trying to master mind over matter?

Re:Evolution is not understood

[HanzoSan]

1) Nothing is random. Actually logic and science teach you the exact opposite. At a quantum level, everything is random, you don't know if a particular particle will decay at a given moment or not, and as far as science can tell, there is no way of knowing. In larger systems, tiny variables add uncertainty until the system becomes completely unpredictable. We will probably never have accurate 1 year weather forcasts. Theoretically if you knew the position and speed of every particle in the system (note: this is by definition impossible) you could theoretically predict, and perhaps if we knew the exact state of the world at 4 Billion BC, an infinitely powerful computer could predict the outcome of evolution. But since this is unimaginably difficult, the individual events that influence evolution, and the mutations that give it material to work with, are for all intents and purposes "random." *

Quantum Particles arent random at all, we simply dont understand them so they SEEM random.

As for the philosophy of the 1930s or whatever, why should i care what the trend is and what other people think? From my lifes experience i know nothing is for sure, do you know if you'll die tomorrow? Do you know anything for sure? No because anything is possible.

Theres chaos, but even chaos makes sense.
Theres no such thing as random, everything is cause and effect.

Maybe evolution is only slow because

[HanzoSan]

We havent figured out exactly what causes it, or how to control it.

Perhaps someone who knows why they evolve, can control the speed at which they evolve, as well as how