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Op-Ed: Humans evolving into bigger idiots? Stanford professor thinks so
Digital Journal ^ | November 21, 2012 | Paul Wallis

Posted on 11/24/2012 5:54:09 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

Yep, evolution is a two way street. With a bit of effort you can evolve to get dumber in every generation. Prof. Gerald Crabtree, a geneticist seems pretty convinced that Homo Sap is long gone in that direction.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
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Seems to me the degenerative idea fits the intelligent design model better. Isn't there a "thermodynamics" law that says things that are left alone tend to deteriorate? Something like that.

The notion that evolution "is a two way street" appears to be an attempt to make all evidence fit the theory instead of allowing the evidence build the theory...the "certainty" of evolutionary is decided, and so regardless of ensuing events, that theory must be preserved.

In short, evolutionists seem to practice what they accuse intelligent design adherents of doing.

I have noticed this "devotion at all costs" attitude also present in Global Warming (aka Climate Change) believers and among hard core liberals like Obama...no matter the result of their policies, they stay committed to their philosophy.

I think as a whole humankind is becoming "less wise" even as our data accumulation grows.

1 posted on 11/24/2012 5:54:18 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Is their no end to articles about Obama’s victory?


2 posted on 11/24/2012 5:55:47 AM PST by Happy Rain ("11/6/2012=Suffrage for the selfish and shiftless has damned America to socialist perdition.")
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To: Happy Rain

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Nice one! And also true.


3 posted on 11/24/2012 6:09:17 AM PST by cdcdawg
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To: SoFloFreeper
Humans evolving into bigger idiots?
It may sound racist, but one only needs to look at the demise ...
... of "black america" over the last 50 years to see "evolution" in action.

4 posted on 11/24/2012 6:09:46 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: SoFloFreeper
What a moronic idea. If anything the current glut of information and sensory stimulus will force us to become more intelligent as we cope with the fire hose of data. Social media will evolve and change human interaction in ways we can't foresee.

In general we are moving to a more complex and dynamic environment, that will reward intelligence. We are already seeing this in the job market where education, cognitive skills, and highly tuned social abilities lad to success. If we assume that over the long-term less intelligent people have less money and are unable to support as many children, then we should become as a species, more intelligent. I know the last point is totally opposite of today's reality, which is skewed by social programs that reward he least intelligent members of society, but once TSHITF this will revert to trend (We are talking evolution over 100’s of generations).

5 posted on 11/24/2012 6:12:33 AM PST by oncebitten (Obama: could not get a clue if he were covered in clue musk and standing in a field of horny clues.)
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To: cdcdawg

6 posted on 11/24/2012 6:17:00 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: oh8eleven

100% correct... The fall of America started with the rise of urban blackness. OMG! I must be a racist!


7 posted on 11/24/2012 6:19:40 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: oh8eleven

I think race has less to do with it than a subversion of the natural abilities and talents of individuals.

Some of the subversion is designed, some is well-meant but degrading. And it happens in all racial groups.


8 posted on 11/24/2012 6:20:45 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Idiocracy”, where life mimics art (if you can call it art)!


9 posted on 11/24/2012 6:29:53 AM PST by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: Happy Rain

Based on this election I would say a resounding yes


10 posted on 11/24/2012 6:32:12 AM PST by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This author, Paul Wallis, has jokingly stated something I’ve suspected for some time now: Western Civilization is on the cusp of another “Malthusian” cycle.


11 posted on 11/24/2012 6:34:13 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Conclusion of the Study:

Certainly the race is getting dumber...except of course, the really ^intelligent^ types like Crabtree and his peers who intend to rule over us and decide our very lives like good Dhimmicrat overlords.


12 posted on 11/24/2012 6:38:30 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Bread and Circuses; Everyone to the Coliseum!)
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This is another case of avoiding discussing the “Bell Curve”. In our information-loaded society, those who choose to be smarter are getting much more intelligent. But, in that same society, where a person can live off the dole from cradle to grave, those who choose to go through life fat, stupid, and lazy can do so and they are dumber than their parents. Chances are that their offspring will be dumber than they are.


13 posted on 11/24/2012 6:41:53 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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>>100% correct... The fall of America started with the rise of urban blackness. OMG! I must be a racist!

I learned how to be a racist by listening to black people talk about white people.


14 posted on 11/24/2012 6:44:14 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wouldn’t Evolution mean people should be getting smarter, more perfect?

Sound’s more like we’re De-evolving not evolving then doesn’t it?

(note for the record: I do not believe in evolution, I believe in a Creator who has a divine plan for mankind and in our everyday life whatever happens to us is due to choices or cause and effect)


15 posted on 11/24/2012 6:45:02 AM PST by Babashane
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To: SoFloFreeper

But everything regresses to the mean. Trees don’t grow to the sky. We don’t have a population of geniuses


16 posted on 11/24/2012 6:57:06 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If you subscribe to the whole Survial of the Fittest thingy, you have to note that in the past century, technology has made it possible the less fit to survive and reproduce and dive once more into the genetic pool.


17 posted on 11/24/2012 7:00:36 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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Natural selection used to be about the survival of the fittest.

Now being fitter or better isn’t a prerequisite for passing your seed onto the next generation.

If anything the opposite is true. The welfare state encourages the laziest and most dependant segment of society to breed like rabbits.


18 posted on 11/24/2012 7:01:00 AM PST by kokoda
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To: SoFloFreeper

No. Not at all. Not evolving into idiots.
However, idiocy, dependence, indolence, unnatural habits, parasitism, stupidity and cheating are encouraged in our society, meaning that there will be more.

Hard working, thriftiness, independence, clean natural habits, honesty, studying, are all $hit upon in our current modern 2012 society under the democrats, meaning that there will be less.


19 posted on 11/24/2012 7:20:00 AM PST by I want the USA back
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To: SoFloFreeper
Are we not men, we are DEVO!

CC

20 posted on 11/24/2012 7:29:52 AM PST by Celtic Conservative
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