but evolution is descent with modification based on pressures imposed on us. without pressure on our survival, how are we to evolve, when there is no need to evolve???
intellectual evolution was necessary at one point. think about it. now we run off to the grocery store to buy our milk and food, when back than, we had to go head to head against natures fiercest claws (and we almost succumbed to extinction 75,000 years ago).
and about the sick helped with medicine, that is actually a hindrance to evolution. In darwins Descent of Man, he states that point clearly, and than states that it would be great evil to cut medicine to the sick for evolution. And about mate selection, it was not always about strength. The evolution of morals, art, comedy, singing, and other evolutionary wasteful ideas were due to mate selection.. Scientists have had a very hard time finding the biological origin of things such as art. Philosophers like Foucoult place the idea thanks to social construction. But I disagree. At one point, being moral, being able to create art, singing, and being witty and funny helped our pleistocene ancestors get laid. The Mating Mind is a good book for anyone interested in Sexual Selection and how it seems more likely that it was responsible for evolutionary wasteful items, such as the Bird of Paradise beautiful tail, art, etc.
Edited by medicineman, 21 December 2008 - 06:53 PM.