Over at Digg.com is a link to an article about Ray Kurzweil's newest book. The comments are some of the most uninformed I have ever come across. Certainly this is no surprise, but it makes me angry. Why should people who obviously know nothing about the concepts in discussion comment at all? Research first, then react!
For example, here are some of the diggers' ideas about evolution:
"There's no human evolution anymore. If there were, we wouldn't have genetic diseases, as people who did would have not been able to survive. Society makes sure that every last retard, myopic, and weakling survive."
"too bad evolution is a stupid thing. we aren't evolving now, because we never were evolving."
"evolution is when ALL of a species has the same mutation. this happens by ALL of the ones dying that dont. so it happens in very small groups near extinction, or by mass extinction."
"When I had my wisdom teeth taken out a couple years ago I started thinking about evolution and natural selection. The more advances we have in medical science the less (or less quickly) humans will evolve."
"Every recorded "evolution" or mutation has been a major downgrade to whatever specie it affected."
What in the hell are they talking about? As for some of the ideas about physical immortality:
"I think this is stupid, plus who wants to live forever? I certainly don't."
"Nobody likes life anymore. Why would you try to lengthen it?"