Unlike in nature, survival of the fittest is no longer a reality. Considering that the human gene pool is already rife with abnormalities, do you think that this will ultimately be our undoing or will science be able to save us?
2006-12-05 04:34:18 · 11 answers · asked by BravoWon 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
This is a question that I have considered for some time. A species without natural selection will not remain viable over time. There is still natural selection for the human race but what exactly is being selected for I am unsure. There is still strong selection for many in the third world. As the world "develops" this problem will be come a greater problem over time. I suspect that it will not come to this. We will be unable to avoid the temptation of repairing the errors in our genes, This will counter act the effect of good medical care and an abundant food supply. I think that generally people will have little ethical problem with repairing genetic mistakes. Grafting new genes is another matter. I think there will be real opposition to this. So we will be left with the errors repaired and certain abilities and talents will be selected through the natural selection that remains.
2006-12-05 04:50:24 · answer #1 · answered by david s 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Natural Selection is alive and well. Think about it. You're attracted to someone and get married. You have kids. You have reproduced and the Human Race goes on!
Natural Selection will work the same way if the bird flu is as bad as the doom sayers predict. Most of us won't get the meds and many of us will die. Those that are hardy enough will survive and pass our genes on to the next generation.
It is a fallacy to think that Natural Selection always chooses the biggest and strongest. It chooses what works best at that moment in time. Being a carnivore like T-Rex was advantageous until the plant eaters died off. The runts (mammals) had the advantage when the dinosaurs were gone and were "selected".
2006-12-05 12:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by ssbn598 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder whether the human race will end up as two separate races - a superclass of genetically enhanced or engineered beings and an underclass of people who are in some way weak, disabled, diseased or socially or intellectually inferior.
The 'underclass' would probably include the vast majority of people as almost everyone seems to have some sort of physical, mental or social problem like asthma, bad backs, allergies, depression, and various addictions. I've left out all the numerous genetic conditions.
If we have a problem it has been caused not just by science but by our morality and ethics which for some reason makes us want to protect and nurture those among us who, if left to fend for ourselves, would die.
I suppose this is the price we have to pay for being Homo sapiens.
2006-12-05 12:57:43 · answer #3 · answered by DogDoc 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I read an interesting article recently about the human race dividing into two definate species much like in the film Time machine but it did have some science to it.
I think i read it in the metro newspaper but it was originally from the new scientist I believe. Sorry for being so vague.
2006-12-05 12:47:18 · answer #4 · answered by Tom S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a race we are getting weaker, but medical science is catching up to save us. Ultimately it'll be medical technology that saves us as we know the human race to be now
2006-12-05 12:36:46 · answer #5 · answered by Natalie B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is what Hitler was worried about. We know what his solution was.
We have plenty of people around today who still believe in eugenics, only now they pretend they are motivated by compassion for those they consider have, or will have, a poor quality of life.
Today, evolutionists (for obvious reasons) vociferously disassociate themselves from the policies of Hitler, but it is impossible to deny that they were by motivated his zealous adherence to Darwinian ideology, influenced by the German, evolutionist fraudster Ernst Haeckel.
2006-12-05 18:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by A.M.D.G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
our species would slowly mutate into a worser or better species, depending of the factors such as the envirment, sexual selection, poultaion, growth...
2006-12-05 18:58:26 · answer #7 · answered by frost breezy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why are we getting so many disabled babies?
It's already happening.
Keeping these babies alive and letting them breed will continue to weaken it.
2006-12-05 12:45:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
We've stopped evolving. We're all going to die.
2006-12-05 12:36:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope think were done for..
2006-12-05 12:35:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋