Have we halted our own Evolution?

Personally, I do not know the future. I don't think that any human does...including, oddly enough, Jesus Himself. If we suspend our knowledge and belief for a moment, it still may not be for us to know the absolute times and dates that any given event in the future may happen. There are some things that may never be known.That never stops us from trying to know the times and dates, however!

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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, there remains a small corner of evil. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Just for the sake of speculation, what do you see the human animal evolving into in...say...5000 more years?

Morphologically? IF we became extinct, only the speculative ego-centrism of the human animal can imagine a universe going on its merry way without us and yet somehow stubbornly refusing to believe that God sent His one and only Son to save us. Yes....we are that special and paradoxically that needy!This message has been edited by Phat, 03-27-2006 04:43 AM

No---what I am saying is that it is the ego that allows us to collectively imagine a universe without God while at the same time using all of our human derived logic to imagine how the universe actually is.Its one thing to say that Biological Evolution makes sense---thats common sense.
Same with Geology and other studies of our earth.Ruling God out of Cosmological arguments, however, seems to me that our faith is more in our human wisdom. For many of us, at least.

I respect human wisdom. I have friends who have spent long and arduous hours at college gaining wisdom far removed from that of a simple praying monk.I too have attended college and I know that broadening the mind is an evolution of thoughts, concepts, and beliefs.I have also prayed with the "monk." Some would say that clinging to "outdated concepts and beliefs is halting the evolution of progressive thought.I can only tell you that I have experienced both evolution of ideas and information (education) and prayer and meditation (recreation)Recreation, to me, is impartation of a fresh spirit.Education is an evolution of existing ideas.The foundation of recreation is a Creator.The foundation of evolution is a human idea that is verifiable time and time again.Perhsaps one question is this: Will human sociological evolution view beliefs in a Deity (ities) as a mutation?Or is the impartation from a true Deity that pre-existed human evolutionary development a continuing refreshing of our spirit?Of course you know which side of this you believe, and I know which side I believe. All I can say to you, Crashfrog, is that there are Lily Pads in Heaven! What response do you have for me?