What is the future of human evolution?

Face · 10-04-2012, 04:05 PM

True, blastinggas, humanity could be alot better of it didn't consist soley of humans.

blastingas10 · 10-09-2012, 12:12 AM

I just came upon a thought. How do we know that there wasn't a more advanced civalization on earth long before us and there's just no trace of it? Maybe millions of years ago there was a civilization just like ours and it was killed off one way or another. And given enough time the conditions became suitable for life once again and here we are. I guess this would simply contradict what we know about the history of the universe.

The Batlord · 10-09-2012, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by blastingas10

I just came upon a thought. How do we know that there wasn't a more advanced civalization on earth long before us and there's just no trace of it? Maybe millions of years ago there was a civilization just like ours and it was killed off one way or another. And given enough time the conditions became suitable for life once again and here we are. I guess this would simply contradict what we know about the history of the universe.

How do we know that pigs aren't in fact more intelligent than we are and have an underground civilization and that the pigs that we keep on farms are merely a fanatical group of pig ninjas willing to die for their pig overlords that spy on us to make sure that we never become more advanced than them?

blastingas10 · 10-09-2012, 12:17 PM

Of course I would get a dumb answer like that. Anytime you mention something tju isn't scientifically proven you get some stupid sarcastic comparison like that. So I guess what youre telling me is that we don't know anymore about pigs than we know about the history of the universe? As mysterious as the origin of the universe is, we somehow don't know anymore more abou ****in pigs.

hip hop bunny hop · 10-09-2012, 12:21 PM

No, you're missing the point about how practical logic works. You can't prove something doesn't exist; hence why we don't have our courts function in this way, if we were to say "prove you didn't ever rape a kiddie", everyone would be in jail.

:P

blastingas10 · 10-09-2012, 12:25 PM

No, I get the point. Just don't get the stupid comparisons. Just because two things can't be proven beyond a doubt, they're equally as irrational? I think not. And I'm not just talking about the examples mentioned above.

hip hop bunny hop · 10-09-2012, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by blastingas10

No, I get the point. Just don't get the stupid comparisons. Just because two things can't be proven beyond a doubt, they're equally as irrational? I think not. And I'm not just talking about the examples mentioned above.

Well, you're wrong.

Guybrush · 10-09-2012, 12:35 PM

I think the people of the future will be more homogenous as our genes are spread more even across the human genome. In the future, I'm thinking my distant descendants won't have this pale Scandinavian complexion that I have, but will be darker skinned. I think people will only become better at living in societies and will become f.ex more lawful as I think genes that promote cooperation among people are the ones with the highest fitness in modern societies .. So, that in a sense would be an effect of natural selection.

(I think if modern society is allowed to grow and develop, morals will also develop in what one might call a positive direction.)

As for how things will fare with diseases caused by or factored by genetics and whether or not most f.ex women will be able to survive natural birth without medical help and so on it's quite hard to tell. The way things are going, advances in medicine and technology means selection pressures are almost gone in many such cases. Either that pressure comes back in force because we lose the modern day privileges that currently keep them at bay or perhaps we come up with some gene therapies that somehow allow us to get rid of bad genes and keep good genes without breeding or culling which obviously is morally difficult.

Who knows what the future will bring?

blastingas10 · 10-09-2012, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop

Well, you're wrong.

It is you who is wrong.

hip hop bunny hop · 10-09-2012, 01:24 PM

Ok, is there anymore evidence existing for your hypothesis than batlords?

10-09-2012, 12:21 PM	#45 (permalink)
hip hop bunny hop Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,381	No, you're missing the point about how practical logic works. You can't prove something doesn't exist; hence why we don't have our courts function in this way, if we were to say "prove you didn't ever rape a kiddie", everyone would be in jail. :P __________________ Have mercy on the poor.

10-09-2012, 12:35 PM	#48 (permalink)
Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	I think the people of the future will be more homogenous as our genes are spread more even across the human genome. In the future, I'm thinking my distant descendants won't have this pale Scandinavian complexion that I have, but will be darker skinned. I think people will only become better at living in societies and will become f.ex more lawful as I think genes that promote cooperation among people are the ones with the highest fitness in modern societies .. So, that in a sense would be an effect of natural selection. (I think if modern society is allowed to grow and develop, morals will also develop in what one might call a positive direction.) As for how things will fare with diseases caused by or factored by genetics and whether or not most f.ex women will be able to survive natural birth without medical help and so on it's quite hard to tell. The way things are going, advances in medicine and technology means selection pressures are almost gone in many such cases. Either that pressure comes back in force because we lose the modern day privileges that currently keep them at bay or perhaps we come up with some gene therapies that somehow allow us to get rid of bad genes and keep good genes without breeding or culling which obviously is morally difficult. Who knows what the future will bring? __________________ Something Completely Different

10-09-2012, 01:24 PM	#50 (permalink)
hip hop bunny hop Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,381	Ok, is there anymore evidence existing for your hypothesis than batlords? __________________ Have mercy on the poor.

10-04-2012, 04:05 PM	#41 (permalink)
Face Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: UK Posts: 306	True, blastinggas, humanity could be alot better of it didn't consist soley of humans.

10-09-2012, 12:12 AM	#42 (permalink)
blastingas10 Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 2,126	I just came upon a thought. How do we know that there wasn't a more advanced civalization on earth long before us and there's just no trace of it? Maybe millions of years ago there was a civilization just like ours and it was killed off one way or another. And given enough time the conditions became suitable for life once again and here we are. I guess this would simply contradict what we know about the history of the universe.

10-09-2012, 12:17 PM	#44 (permalink)
blastingas10 Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 2,126	Of course I would get a dumb answer like that. Anytime you mention something tju isn't scientifically proven you get some stupid sarcastic comparison like that. So I guess what youre telling me is that we don't know anymore about pigs than we know about the history of the universe? As mysterious as the origin of the universe is, we somehow don't know anymore more abou ****in pigs.

10-09-2012, 12:25 PM	#46 (permalink)
blastingas10 Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 2,126	No, I get the point. Just don't get the stupid comparisons. Just because two things can't be proven beyond a doubt, they're equally as irrational? I think not. And I'm not just talking about the examples mentioned above.