Have we halted our own Evolution?

(I'm almost certain that this has ben discussed here before but I cannot find evidence of it... apologies...)Assuming that evolution in some form exists.Is it now the case that humans have effectively Halted our evolutionary development?On one level, medical advances now dictate that, for the most part, very few disabilities (evolutionary mutations) will result in premature death, or prohibit procreation and transmission of these "defective" genes.
For instance, I am asthmatic, I would not be here if it were not for the drugs I take or the hospital care I recieved as a child.
Now if I had been born maybe 100? 200? years ago, my chances of survival would have been slim, and then only if I had been born into a wealthy family.On another level, in the pre-technology exitance of mankind, our environment, our surroundings determined the path of our evolution, our upright stance enabled us to eat from higher trees, or perhaps hunt more efficiently.
Now though, we are creating our surroundings, our environment is being designed/built to fit us. Ergonomics dictates that our world evolves so as best to suit us. not the other way around.Does this mean that this is the end of our physical evolution? What does evolution hold in store for us? will it be mental evolution? spiritual evolution?What next?

Human beings choose mates completely randomly, unlike any other organism? That's news to me. Did you have some evidence for this assertion?

I'm going AFK in a moment, this is an interesting looking topic, but it seems to be something that should be in the Biological Evolution (though the last paragraph might mean you wish to take this in another direction). Either way, this doesn't seem like a coffee house topic, so I'm moving it to PNT for later consideration.I did see one topic that covered this, Message 1 seems to have been set up similarly though probably sufficiently different and long ago to warrant another discussion if you want.

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Thread moved here from the Coffee House forum.

Ah yes... My error... meant to PNT this one.thanks Adminmodulous

I'm not sure I made such an assertion. (if i did it was unintentional)I listed two ways in which I feel Human evolutionary devlopment has been halted, by our own technological development.fell free to comment on/discuss these points.

Biological evolution or miscellaneous topics in creation/evolution would be fine I guessEDIT: what does AFK mean?This message has been edited by Creavolution, 03-17-2006 02:14 PM

AFK = away from keyboard

Ah yes, unfortunately I'm NUOMGA (Not Up On My Geeky Acronyms)

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