Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Evolution

I saw a guy on TV the other night make a passionate claim that evolution will carry mankind to eventual perfection. He claimed that gays and Muslims and liberals and feminists and fans of reality TV would all fall by the wayside because they do not fit i with the plan for what evolution has for mankind. I watched it as long as I could. But had t turn it off before he concluded his confusing diatribe.

Many people, and dogs, seem to get so caught up in their biases and agendas that they cannot see clearly. That this guy was talking about evolution as if it is some kind of god was hysterical to me. I am sure it wasn't to everyone watching.

Evolution grinds toward equilibrium. It doesn’t care how things turn out, which species survive and which perish. It can even seem to slow and grind to a halt, until something gives it a jolt, or a slap in the face. Then evolution leaps forward again, to adapt to the slap, the new variables, in order to survive.

Is that now? Are we at such a crossroads? Are the neos the next leap, or the current slap? Could there be any other slaps lurking out there that we don't yet know about?

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