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Human Genes Still Evolving
MediumFormat writes "The New York Times is running an article that discusses the continuing evolution of human genes. From the article: 'The genes that show this evolutionary change include some responsible for the senses of taste and smell, digestion, bone structure, skin color and brain function.' Darwin Awards aside, what made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?"
If you want to evolve, find or create a good job for yourself, make plenty of money, and this is called being strong.
If you don't want to evolve, then you simply won't make enough money or any money and you'll fall between the cracks. When we pritivize social security, and stop some of these social programs, then we will have an evolutionary market. Always follow the market, always support the economy.
Just because you have 20 kids does not mean these 20 kids will all survive. You see, poor people in Africa are having kids. Poor people in the third world are having kids. Poor people in America are having kids. Most of these kids will not survive, because healthcare costs will rise, the cost of living will rise, the cost of education will rise, the cost of everything will rise. Sure some poor people will become rich, and some poor people will survive, but living in poverty means accepting greater risks, a harder life, and usually a shorter less healthy life. You will not have access to clean air, clean water, clean food, or healthcare. Society is not designed to help the weak poor, society is designed to help the strong rich.
So it should be obvious which genes our economy values most.
Science is bullshit, the only thing that passes on from generation to generation is culture.
The concept of race will not go away just because science disproves of it. The concept of race will never go away just like Christianity will never go away. The economy, the culture, the religion, these things matter more than science ever will. Science could say anything, but it will be explained in a cultural lense. Race will always exist, and if science says race is not defined by skin color and physical features, race will be defined by class, or by other features by those who are educated. Race will always exist because culturally people require it to exist. Religiously, race will exist, just like capitalism will always exist.
Cultural conservativism is the answer. The economy points toward a conservative culture. Always follow the economy. We are not going to wake up tomorrow, and have all of this science stuff be accepted, it's just too progressive to be acceptable. It is too much change too fast. Ultimately, change like this will only redefine the culture, it will put a new face on it, you don't like the current discrimination based on skin color and physical appearance? Great, prepare for the new discrimination by genes and class. The point is, this is our culture, it will not go away, it's in our genetic code to be this way, and simply by telling us its in our genetic code, or showing us our code, it's not going to change a damn thing because religion and culture are not defined by math equations.
Society is not a collective of smart people. Intelligence does not create unity. Religion creates unity. Intelligence creates colleges, and most people who go to college then go on to compete with each other for crap jobs. Unity comes from god, through religion, not through science and not through intellect.
Strength is money, the more money you have the stronger you become. Culture is more important than intellect, because if you just have intellect, without any religion, or culture, then you'll be a typical liberal.
This is what liberals don't seem to understand, America is culturally conservative. There was a time when I thought like you did, but look at reality. If your liberal ideas were correct, then the current reality would reflect this. In reality, America is religious, America is culturally conservative, and if you want to focus on something important, focus your science on the economy, because thats about the only thing that math and science can explain. People do not need science to tell them how to think, people have god, people have culture, and just because you get a team of scientists to tell them they are wrong does not change their minds on anything.
So lets put it this way, if you want to survive, you need a strong economy. If you are in a society, your society needs a strong economy to survive. Therefore the only thing that matters is the economy. Culturally we can be conservative or progressive, but if the economy isnt working, we cannot survive. America is currently culturally conservative, as long as our economy is strong we will be fine. Think and work within the conservative worldview and framework.
The more important question is how does an C/ID supporter explain that C/ID has stopped with the modern era?
Surely everybody in here knows that GOD created the world in 7 days and that all this evolution nonsense was just made up by some British heretic.
I dont read
I think what the grandparent meant was that most of the attractive people are stupid.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you regarding environment's role in intelligence development, etc; but I live in a college towm, and every day I see some dumb hot chick, staggering down the road completely wasted on a Tuesday afternoon or driving on the sidewalk.
It makes you wonder...
You are still innocent until proven guilty. What's changed is what they do to innocent people. - notnAP, #26891325
"what made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?"
The NAZI's followed by politically correctness. Which places us in a conundrum where we insist on evolution but deny that anyone or group of people could evolve beyond others in some facet. Then we shout about holders of ID "denying the facts of science" as we do it ourselves. There you have it...
- Saj
Does this mean the social darwinists were right? Logically, if evolution is taking place then some humans are genetically superior to other humans. The entire article smells bad.
The end result of this will be certain economic elites will determine themselves to be "evolutionarily superior" and legislate protections, superior schools, superior career, and whatnot while the "evolutionarily inferior" will be deemed and not genetically suitible for higher education, etc.