technology and evolution ?

Question

i ask this question because of some answers to another question i asked.

if technology is making humans devolve or stopping evolution is that a good or bad thing.

please explain why you thinnk it is good or bad.

Answer 1

Simple....
Good:
Because technology is making humans live longer and longer, communicate better, move faster, fly, etc.. without the need of evolution....

Bad:
The specie will hardly see any evolution for good, because we don't need evolution, we are solving all of our problems with technology...

Like I answered the onther question yesterday, I think what makes us evolve as humans is our way of getting more civilize, and creating new and improved laws and regulations, which make us more ethical and more wise about society and how to live together....

Answer 2

Devolve is not how evolution works. This is a common misunderstanding of evolution. Evolution does not point in one continuous upward direction. It goes wherever the most organisms survive to reproduce.

There is no good or bad in evolution. Humans sense of smell is pitiful compared to dogs. Humans ability to run is pitiful compared to many other mammals. Is this good or bad?

Answer 3

To an extent, especially in developed countries, man has taken "survival of the fittest" out of the equation. This could be looked upon as devolution or just evolution in a different direction. It can be good for the individual and bad for the species.

For example, 100 years ago diabetes was very rare and deadly. With the production of insulin an individual with diabetes could live a fairly normal life--so it was good for him/her. But as people with diabetes lived to the age of reproduction they then passed on the genes predisposing their children to diabetes. The result is that now, only 100 years later diabetes is fairly common in our population.

Answer 4

Good and Bad I would say

Technology and a communal society has certain disadvantages. for example, offspring that wouldn't be able to survive in the wild are kept alive to pass on their genes. The physcially weak, unco-ordinated, difficulties with eyesight or hearing or mentally slow without technology would not be allowed to survive. If technology didn't make us independent from the immediate needs of food and shelter we would not have the time to care for these members of our society. In time perhaps genetic predespositions for these thigns would have disappeared. But on the other side it is very human to care for these people, and often they show a latent ability that has helped us elsewhere. Steven Hawking for example can't hunt and forage for food like our cave-man ancestors, but his intelligence has helped our entire society.

I think it's important not to negelct our physical selves, though it seems easy now. We no longer need to run distances with cars, our "work" can involve sitting down for many hours of the day. But we cannot forget our physical prowess that helped us create our society. Physical activity can be seen as connecting with our ancestors, or a spiritual connection to our basic selves devoid from modern problems and trials. It can be fun, a way to connect with others. I don't think it's in our future to become technologically dependent vestiges of human beings, bloated with thin weak limbs that hover around operating machinery.

Answer 5

I think it is a good thing because i dont believe in evolution anyways