Is it possible that all our unnatural practices and preferences have already slowed down the natural process of Evolution that ensures Survival despite changing environment?
2007-08-04 22:42:50 · 11 answers · asked by small 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Throughout our history we have seen the ability of man to control our world increase gradually over time. The invention of reliable fire making abilities allowed us to cook food, change landscapes and even make war or defence. The invention of metal tools allowed us to change landscapes to suit our will, build more effective hunting and warring weapons.
However until very recently we have been unable change to ourselves. With recent surgical techniques, medicines like anti-biotics, medical and physiological understanding that we have never had before we have been able to lengthen life spans, improve quality of life and even provide for most of those who live longer. Now we have the capacity to change ourselves with non-natural selection, that is we can create ten embryos and choose the one that is best and healthiest or the one that we like best, we are even on the verge of being able to construct what we want in our next generation.
So in short, the argument could be made that birth control and abortions, coupled with IVF and genetic technology is the manifestation of our next evolutionary form, that being we are the only animal on earth capable of deciding what happens to our species next, instead of random chance.
Hope this helps.
2007-08-05 14:34:05 · answer #1 · answered by Arthur N 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe that abortions and birth control have in any way contributed to the reversal of evolution. The only thing that has, is careless, not exactly top choice or well put together human beings reproducing at an alarming rate, who aren't passing down very good genes to our future population. Thus creating a future of unhealthy, dimwitted, poor, uncaring future adults to mate with eachother, doing the same thing, and so on and so forth.. so sad. If anything, birth control is probably the best thing for our positive evolution.
2007-08-04 22:53:25 · answer #2 · answered by JAS 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think so because evolution is a continuous process and birth control or abortion is a very or less as considered to the total human population. And the process will take as per the climate/ environmental changes of the particular place.
2007-08-05 01:32:31 · answer #3 · answered by The More I learn The More I'm Uneducated 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is likely to retard but not to stop. Birth control or abortion for that matter only slow down the population explosion but not to put a complete end on to procreation. Birth control was introduced because of the imbalance proportion of population to that of food supply and economic chain. Procreation will always be there because it is the nature of man.
2007-08-04 23:26:12 · answer #4 · answered by Third P 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I totally agree that man is screwing with the dynamics of evolution, cloning isnt natural selection, vaccines are skipping past diseases we should have adapted to, we are wiping species off the planet forever, and we are even creating totally new species for our benifit but that ultimately works against us like the african killer bee, which is a man made species that is wiping out all other bees. Now im not sure about you but i think evolution is a global thing everything invoved, and when species are missing and new ones are added that arent supposed to be there, its like a math question, no matter how many formulas you throw at it, it still isn't going to work.
2007-08-05 04:35:51 · answer #5 · answered by Mike B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. I understand your motive for the question, but without it we would be on a worse ecological precipice than we are - trying to feed and support infrastructure for 4 billion Chinese rather than one billion. And they are by no means the whole problem.
Regarding the evolving brain/consciousness issue, Joseph C. Pearce - "Biology of Transcendence" and Ken Wilbur have been investigating this for many decades. I think you would be interested in their take on it.
We have to remember that only three thousand years ago we were still at the mercy of the bi-cameral mind and hearing voices. We're actually moving along at quite a nice clip!
2007-08-05 09:03:42 · answer #6 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, nice question. But honestly, We are over populated as it is, and most likely about half of the world doesn't take birth control or do abortions anyway. I don't think our evolution is any slowed down.
2007-08-04 22:52:57 · answer #7 · answered by Emmy 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No you see evolution never happened, nor is it happening as we speak. The whole belief in evolution is exactly why we find it acceptable to preform abortions however, because we dont value human life, if after all we are on this eart from a primordial swamp and have no purpose.
2007-08-04 22:47:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is possible, but I highly doubt that the usage of birth control and the like will have a horrific effeBOATS
2007-08-04 22:50:16 · answer #9 · answered by ffffff 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, but medicine that keeps weak genes alive will.
2007-08-05 15:38:04 · answer #10 · answered by cynic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋