I have been looking around this forum for a little while but I couldn’t find a thread, which dealt with this topic specifically. So here we go.
Humans have in the last century demonstrated, in an appalling way, a desire to change the phenotypic and social structure of civilisation. Nazi sterilisation of the mentally ill and American chemical castration, are but two examples. On the other side of the coin, people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to reproduce, can with the aid of modern medicine. Thus having an impact on our gene pool.
So perhaps we can control the future evolution of humanity, even use genetic technologies, brave new world style. But, that’s not really what I want to talk about. More so, I wish to discuss living conditions and cultural effects.
The huge population of humans, variety of living conditions and the ability to travel may be a large enough impediment to change for the next few hundred millennia. But what then? Is it dangerous to structure our societies in such a way that evolution is impeded?
Should we give it direction? Does it already have direction?
If the susceptibility to religious beliefs is heritable will Catholics inherit the earth? How can the choice between evolution and YEC affect our ability to deal with the long-term future of humanity?
Admin, if some of this has been discussed in other threads please advise.