Are we evolving or devolving?

Question

North Dakota woman gives birth to twin monkeys. Does this mean the end of humans as we know them?

Toadaly, the government once again has the little one sequestered for fear the public will panic.

Adam (AM), don't kill the messanger. I'm just reporting the facts.

Answer 1

According to their kind. That not withstanding I am going to hold my response until this is found to be absolutely true.

Answer 2

We cannot "devolve", that is impossible. We evolve to better fit our current environment, because selective pressure is applied against traits that are detrimental to our survival. Whether or not we are adapting to a stable environment is another question. How long will eyeglasses be around, and by the time they are no longer available, will we have all gone blind, for all intents and purposes? When that happens, we have not devolved, we have simply adapted to an unstable environment, and when that environment no longer exists, traits that were previously beneficial may become detrimental...

Answer 3

Personally, I think that we are devolving intellectually. For evidence of this, go to Walmart....you'll see exactly what I mean.

I think the best way to change this is to randomly (every 50 years or so) go through and bomb a bunch of places throughout the world (don't tell anyone where you're going to be), including the US. It will help "thin the herd" and force us to think and read and plan better. We humans have grown too complacent and this complacency is breeding weakness in our race. We need to find a way to change it. To force inovation beyond computers, beyond technology, but in our very lives. We've stopped reaching to the stars, we've stopped moving forward in our advancements. We need to encourage these things.

Answer 4

We are doing both. Some are sliding into a very negative reality and others are seeking to rise.

The ignorance of the Law of Karma in the West does not serve us well, although the Law itself is an Absolute. No one can engage in negativity and not generate negative Karma... this creates a Karmic due bill within a MINDline within ones MIND. That due bill must be gone through, either in this life, or in some future life. And who knows how many lives one has lived generating negative due bills?

In the West, especially in America, one is free to engage in and to cause others to engage in as much negativity as one desires... so long as one doesn't get caught. And today, even those who are caught are often released to do more harm to society. Of course this "harm" is due those who receive it, otherwise they would not receive it.... but this fact of life is not believed to exist in the West.

To evolve Spiritually in the West is not easy. Indeed, today it is most difficult. The vast majority in the West are either actively engaged in negativity, or in support of it by passively allowing it to exist and to grow. The nation needs a truly moral individual who is not afraid to be accused of morality as its leader. But those who revel in negativity will be aggressively vile and ruthless in their opposition. An interesting time to live, and a fascinating time to wonder what the future will bring?

Peace

Answer 5

lizzaards used to be giants

charchaicadon megalodon used to be 50ft long, you would have to use jaws as bait to catch it

sloth bears used to be over 1 story high

the atmosphere used to support animals this size

and then an event occured which changed the atmosphere

but guess what, use a hyperbaric chamber and shove a butterfly in there and the extra oxygen will double if not triple its size

if conditions of growth can be restored with the addition of extra oxygen then were millions of years of evolution required to reduce the size of everything?

Answer 6

No, but it means that she isn't allowed within 200' of the Monkey cage at the local zoo.

Answer 7

My wife gave birth to a monkey and he grew up and mated with a woman and she gave birth to a telepathic squirrel who has telekinetic powers.
I don't care where we are going forward or backwards. I just like hanging out with my grandsquirrel and watching him set stuff on fire.

Answer 8

Sounds like someone is pulling your leg. Or you are pulling ours. Unless they did in vitro fertilization or something, but even then, I don't think that would work.

The National Enquirer wouldn't publish something like that. They're too high class. Try one of the other tabloids.

Answer 9

Linky please.

In answer to the first question, there's no such thing as devolving. We are always evolving, regardless of whether we thing the evolved traits are improvements or not.

Answer 10

No such thing as "devolving." Evolution is not teleological, it is simply change due to selective forces acting upon heritable variation..