Posted on 07/28/2009 11:14:56 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Creationists )(and their ID cousins) with specious arguments and pseudo-science in 3..2..1...
No, it's de-volving. Just look how stupid people are in this country, voting for a fraud like Obama. Heck, they are too stupid to even know the difference between a forged COLB and a real birth certificate, and those are people who are supposed to be educated journalists and investigative reporters, judges, law enforcement and others in high office.
Then there is this global warming BS, deviant sexual behavior, etc etc etc.
Nope, there is no sign of increasing intelligence in this country.
“Are we not men?”
There is absolutely no proof whatsoever that we evolved from monkeys and apes.
LOL
>> No, it’s de-volving. Just look how stupid people are in this country, voting for a fraud like Obama. Heck, they are too stupid to even know the difference between a forged COLB and a real birth certificate, and those are people who are supposed to be educated journalists and investigative reporters, judges, law enforcement and others in high office.
Then there is this global warming BS, deviant sexual behavior, etc etc etc.
Nope, there is no sign of increasing intelligence in this country.<<
Your logic is unassailable. And we see it in a few years.
Freedom as an ideal is no more. The thinking required to make it work is far gone.
*sigh*
Hard to tell these days.
I think you're probably right, but for different reasons than you posit. Beginning centuries ago, but especially this last century, a human's brain doesn't no longer to be as effective as it once did to survive. With the advent of social-help programs all over the globe, and particularly in the developed world, one can frankly be dumb as a stump and still make it long enough to procreate.
So, where once only the smartest human animals would "spread their seed", now every moron and their brother is passing their "idiot" gene along to countless unsuspecting human offspring. This is not a good sign in Darwin's Theory of evolution.
>>There is absolutely no proof whatsoever that we evolved from monkeys and apes<<
There is plenty of scientific proof. But it requires people who understand science to understand it.
It’s absolutely devolving. I can cite countless examples of how and why, but one really needs to look no further than music to see the process.
Nor is there proof that oil is found in ancient strata.
And no coal has marks of (now extinct) plants. The La Brea Tarpits are just an elaborate hoax. Yes, hoax. That’s the ticket.
>>So, where once only the smartest human animals would “spread their seed”, now every moron and their brother is passing their “idiot” gene along to countless unsuspecting human offspring. This is not a good sign in Darwin’s Theory of evolution. <<
This has been a hilarious new front on the creationist front.
The “people are getting stupid” (idiocracy) argument, which ignores the nature of stochastism.
Thanks for the laughter. To see TToE in action (idiots breeding supra idiots) is all we need for a rebuttal presumption of TToE in action.
I'm hardly an creationist. But, Darwin demands that evolution is at least is partially catalyzed by a species doing what it needs to do to improve itself in order to further it's chances of survival.
The original question of the article is, "Is the human brain still evolving". It seems logical, given man's current predilection to help the helpless, cure the sick, and feed the starving are all things that will work against evolution in the coming millennia. The importance of intellect, oddly enough, is becoming less important as it's no longer paramount to one's survival.
Why just add computer chips to our brain to increase its capacity?
Possibly to interface with computers. To have a thinking capacity of a human and a processing time of a computer.
The modern human brain is a bit smaller than the cro magnon brain.
One does not need as much intelligence to live in a civilized society.
Or domesticated...
Capacity is already grossly under utilized. More storage is simply overkill.
Well said.
But is it that the future of the human race? Genetically enginener a human with bigger brains and greater intelligence using microprocessors neural implants.
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