Are we humans an evolutionary mistake?

[hifiguy]

11. Nah.

Mother Nature tried countless- literally countless - variations on life. Some of them turned out successful - one might look at ants in their countless trillions - and others were more of a dead end.

Humans were successful. The problem is that while evolution can generate intelligence in the form of a complex brain that is self aware, it can't confer wisdom, which is a product of experience and deep reflection. And wisdom is what is needed for intelligent creatures to survive over the long - in evolutionary terms - run.

Intellectually we are still adolescents at best, taking the species as a whole. Many precocious ones have contributed profound insights to our understanding of the world in which we live and of which we are a part, but the more immature ones still like to believe in fairytales about omnipotent Invisible Sky Wizards and other such juvenile cant.

The problem is that when the advanced technology dreamed up by the smart ones falls into the hands of those who have the foresight of a six-year old and are focused solely on immediate self-gratification, species-destroying disaster is a distinct possibility