Is evolution a hoax or will we ever "evolve"?

Question

It seems disheartening that humans have not evolved beyond the pack mentality of killing one another over land, opinions, beliefs or ideas. We kill each other over ownership of land that really doesn't belong to us... it belongs to the Earth. We blow each other up because we cannot agree on who's God is real. We murder each other over resources, ideology and greed.
Is this it? Is this what we've evolved to be? Is this what it means to be God's children? How do we move beyond this monkey thinking?

Answer 1

Of all the things I have read in recent years, yours is the most thought-provoking.
Of course, I sincerely doubt if monkeys would ever stoop to such a level...
You certainly hit the proverbial nail on the head. When every one realizes what you just said, there can be "peace on earth...goodwill towards men..."

Answer 2

My opinion............

i think we're always evolving at the same physical rate. we don't see it well because evolutionary increments occur during the productions of successive generations, not within a single generation or individual. Evolution literally comes from Latin, "unrolling." A spontaneous genetic mutation during the life of one is not evolutionary -- but the passing of the mutation to offspring is.

We are pack animals -- it beats being alone, and tends toward our survival and protection from other animals, and other packs of humans.

We define our gods as rationalizations to relieve us of guilt over pushing rival packs out of the territories we want for our own families and our own quality of life aspirations.

We know a bigger pack might do the same to us if we don't maintain the appearance of being strong, and ideally even right; if we can't use our god to shame and embarrass them till they stand down and go home.

Here is how we start improving...
We read this book for plausible and pragmatic ideas: "What God Wants" -- Neale Donald Walsch.

Maybe we evolve more rapidly and noticeably in the ways we think-- socially, spiritually, rationally.

If we are mutated apes or CroMagnons, maybe it took millions of years. But if we are wiser than ancient hunters and farmers, only a few millenia.

On the other hand, we don't seem to change uniformly as the single species that we are.
Many of us, even me at earlier times have expressed our hunt-for-food instinct by killing beings we didn't want to eat and didn't need to kill.

We don't want ourselves or families hurt so we send younger people to capture territory for us in war, when we can't safely see a war waged by others, we watch football soccer baseball basketball and hocky-- variations of the Roman contests in the Colosseum, or video simulations of these.

I'd say that the psycho-physiological evidence supports that we have changed little physically over a very long period. We still have the fight or flight body chemistry and the same emotions as other mammals. But still, by working together in packs, we have come up a lot of really useful ideas and technologies. I think we've improved overall on average.

Yes, this is what we've evolved to be. The good news is... there is room for improvement. Let's not stop moving in that direction.

Answer 3

Evolution is physical, not philosophical. We still behave as pack animals do because we are pack animals, like it or not. Until the various packs we belong to, and we each belong to several, can resolve their conflicts, and I do not believe that will ever happen without the disappearance of personality, there will be problems. Only a mankind-wide drone mentality can stop it.

Until then, the mighty will continue to prey on the small.

Occasionally there are some who are willing to put themselves between the small and the mighty. We call these people heroes and pretend to wish to be like them.

Tina Turner was wrong. We do need more heroes.

Answer 4

They train it in view that of the separation of church and state. They consider they've verified evolution. To a measure evolution is correct. If the local weather slowly alterations animals will adapt i.e. evolve. But evolving from the very establishing is unknown and nobody can declare that it occurred. In the Bible it says the earth used to be created in seven days. Ok that’s high-quality but it surely does no longer say if something developed. Noah’s Ark he prompted certainly one of each and every KIND no longer each and every species. Evolution simply says hat species department off to make new species which this helps. Every variety branching off to emerge as new species. No frame used to be there on the establishing of time to let us know precisely what occurred so you will have most effective 3 chances religion, evolution, or a mixture of the 2. The executive does no longer desire to confess that there might be a god of any variety. That is why they train it in faculties as not to OFFEND any one in view that of all this political correctness that's taking place.

Answer 5

Evolution isn't about creating the "best" animal by some perpetual, unwavering drive towards improvement. It is simply the survival and subsequent reproduction of the most fit organisms for the current environment. As long as we can reproduce successfully there is no pressure for us to change other than at random. Our shallow ideas and opinions and crazy beliefs have yet to get in our way of f**king each other.

Answer 6

Evolution doesn't happen overnight but is a very slow and gradual process. "We" as in this generation won't move past the "monkey thinking." However, there is hope in the distant future if you truly believe and understand the concept of evolution. Remember, it's an ongoing process and didn't simply end because we walk upright.

Answer 7

We evolved pretty well. We kick all other living things around pretty effectively. I'd rather be on the giving rather than receiving end..

Answer 8

I don't believe evolution is a hoax. However it may not be man who evolves.

Answer 9

we need Jesus.

Answer 10

We are ever evolving...................................................... . . . . . ..