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In reply to the discussion: Thoughts on the Evolution of Our Species. [View all]
muriel_volestrangler
(105,902 posts)23. It's easily arguable
You haven't actually put forward any decent argument that the existence of the species is threatened. What you list in the OP does not threaten the species. The complete collapse of all civilisation would not threaten the species - which is distributed around the world, with a wide variety of food sources and, as well as wide knowledge of agriculture, hunting and gathering, a highly flexible omnivorous diet.
It's not the use of 'evolution' that's the problem. It's you insistence that our whole species is at an unidentified 'tipping point' (tipping into what? Polygamy? Cannibalism? Becoming cyborgs?) and that it's existence is threatened that are a problem.
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"Think of collapse as a new beginning." LORDY, I got flamed for saying the same thing.
Zalatix
May 2012
#3
Here's one for you. Is the universe really expanding, or is everything in it just shrinking?
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#72
Nuclear war could count for your 1st point; but that wasn't in the OP
muriel_volestrangler
May 2012
#38
You're the one nitpicking over the use of a noun versus a verb, or synonyms
muriel_volestrangler
May 2012
#50
As long as we set the criteria for judgment, you're right. OTOH, I think Douglas Adams
Egalitarian Thug
May 2012
#46
Okay, I'm done busting a gut here. In all seriousness, here is why you are so wrong.
Zalatix
May 2012
#49
what you fail to understand is, it's not a question of a train wreck. The train IS the wreck.
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#77
I will never understand the need people feel to insist that whatever their situation is
4th law of robotics
May 2012
#37
When people talk about saving the earth, they're really talking about saving us.
Egalitarian Thug
May 2012
#55
Lots more species have come and gone before humans appeared in the very recent past.
FarCenter
May 2012
#61