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Author Topic:   Can Evolution explain this? (Re: The biological evolution of religious belief)
Dr Adequate
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Message 83 of 91 (353537)
10-01-2006 10:01 PM
Reply to: Message 80 by inkorrekt
09-30-2006 6:29 PM


My understanding is that Evolution is a continuous process resulting in extinction of existing species and dedvelopment of new species. According to this, what will man become? Will he evolve into a new species? or he will become extinct?
An interesting question, but probably unanaswerable, since it depends on our future history as well as our future biology. You can see that the answer will be very different depending on whether we war ourselves into extinction; or develop a sustainable technological society; or exhaust our environmental resources and collapse into a pre-industrial or even pre-agricultural civilization; all of which seem perfectly possible at this point in time.

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