2007-07-03 04:26:52 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We certainly have every chance at becoming a better civilization, don't we? I wouldn't consider it an evolutionary change, however, but a rational one.
If we all chose without exception to aim for the ideal society just to see how close we could get, it would no doubt be a better world. I'm already on that path and I'm sure a lot of people think they are, as well... Now, how can we all agree on which direction this new path ougth to take? Which way is the way to Eden?
I can see myself running along side the realists and thinkers, the seekers of knowledge, the corageous and fair minded... It's a fast paced effort and there isn't room for toteing along a lot of useless baggage. I don't see God running in the pack and I know I'm not planning to carry his load... so... nuff said for him. Keep runnin'.
Eden is just over the hill. Last one there is a rotten egg.
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2007-07-03 06:26:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, actually. When we abolished slavery a couple hundred years ago, we ended a way of life that was several thousand years old and had been in place throughout all of human history. In many countries, women can vote and run for public office, whereas long ago we were mere chattle. Once upon a time, sickly babies were killed or left to die, now we'll do everything in our power to help them live. Once upon a time war was all about doing as much damage as possible, now there's a thought about separating civilians from combatants (for some of us, anyway, but it's a thought that was never there before).
So think people are evolving spiritually, thought not all at once and not all in the same place. It takes a long time, but looking back over the long view I see definite improvements.
2007-07-03 11:42:20 · answer #2 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, then the less kind, brutish people will invade again and conquer the ones with loftier ideals.
But they will settle down and mix with the conquered people. The loftier ideas will slowly spread into the dominant people and they will become kinder and less brutish.
Then someone else will invade, and the whole process starts all over again.
2007-07-03 11:36:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I do not. I believe that, quite soon, IF we do not destroy ourselves, we will modify ourselves into cyborgs and ultimately completely into machines. While this will probably make us into kinder, better people, with loftier ideals, it is not evolution in the standard sense, rather it is intelligent self-modification. One way or another, I suspect that human evolution is pretty much at an end.
2007-07-03 11:32:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If what we see around us is any indication, I'd say the chances are pretty slim.
Having lived just over half a century, I have noticed changes in society, for sure. But I wouldn't say that human beings are becoming kinder, better people, or that their ideals are particularly lofty.
Something seems to be missing, these days.
2007-07-03 11:35:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have already evolved to have some innate empathy and altruism. This is also true for other species that form social groups. But note that we also have evolved competitive and aggressive traits too. Some people are more aggressive and others are more altruistic. This is what you expect from evolution.
But our intelligence has evolved beyond the point where biological evolution has the dominant impact on our behaviors. If we are going to evolve to be more altruistic/kind, it is going to happen through the evolution of ideas and social pressure.
2007-07-03 11:44:41 · answer #6 · answered by Jim L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the other way actually. People with high ideals, the kinder ones, tend to have less children - they are aware of the over population problems. So if a genetic link exists with that type thinking it will be scarce as well as the behavior passed down.
2007-07-03 12:08:34 · answer #7 · answered by Sage Bluestorm 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only if such characteristics enhance the proliferation of the genes of those people that exhibit them. Unfortunately it seems that ignorant, intolerant people are much more likely to breed than the educated type, so it doesn't look good for this to happen.
2007-07-03 11:38:43 · answer #8 · answered by Murazor 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, as we become more cyborg, like one of your answerers has mentioned here, we will also begin connect our minds together (sort of like the internet for our brains). Eventually, we will be one big mass with a single conscious. A single entity. No such thing as "people" will exist.
2007-07-03 11:40:42 · answer #9 · answered by Darth Cheney 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think if people trusted their own intuitions about good and evil and not depend on some twisted religion the world would be a much better place.
2007-07-03 11:30:04 · answer #10 · answered by TriciaG28 (Bean na h-Éireann) 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋