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4 ups, 6y,
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2 ups, 6y
have kids?
2 ups, 6y,
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False, in fact, it's speeding up.

Evolution is a product of selection. Mutations abound in the 'First World' and the rest (why is the newest of world the "First," and the oldest civilizations, "Third," I never understood), and many are not being selected out as they would normally be in less civilized conditions.
By keeping alive and thus preserving those traits and passing them on, plus mixing with others, evolution is still occuring and even accelarating.

8000 year old bones found in Kazakhstan show that humans have become slighter and thus weaker in build, and craniums smaller, and thus less intelligent. Since the advent of agriculture which offers a more steady supply of food, and settled and larger communities which distribute food and other resources to those who might not always be able to acquire them, the weaker, less intelligent, and otherwise less fit can survive. Further, the lesser the IQ, the more they tend to breed.
This is evolution in action.
2 ups, 6y,
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Okay, now I am more confused. First world, third world is about standard of living. Latin America isn't first world, even though it is newer.
My whole point is that people who are less fit to succeed environment are still surviving and populating the new generation. It's gotten to a point where successful doesn't mean you get to reproduce, because everybody gets to reproduce, so almost everybody, except those with a genetic disorder or birth defects survive. Evolution is selection of the most fit to the environment. The problem is in a society where the more fit support the less fit and the less fit have more kids, our society is becoming less fit to our environment, where intelligence and hard work reign supreme.
2 ups, 6y,
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Romania is First World simply because it is in the West and India is not because it is not European? Read between the lines.

Evolution is a series of accumulated changes passed down over generations. "Survival of the fittest" is a misunderstanding of the concept.
Disorders" and "defective" are a matter of perspective. Offspring born with shorter limbs are a hindrance to an ungulate adapted to the plains, but not to an ungulate adapting to an aquatic lifestyle.

Humans are by far the most unfit species to have ever evolved. So weak, even the tropical ones require artificial heating so they won't die of exposure if air temps dip slightly below that of their own bodies.

Again, with a some modification for clarification, 8000 year old bones found in Kazakhstan show that modern humans since then have been becoming slighter and thus weaker in build, and craniums smaller, and thus less intelligent.

The use of fire and tools, while allowing for the development of humans into creatures that have 'dominated' much of the planet, will also be their downfall. Over millions of years, humans have become progressively weaker, and rather than adapting to ecological niches and changes, they must artificially adapt those to fit it. That may seem a decent trade off for Walmart and Fallout4, bit when the oil and the Ogalla Aquifer peters out (which will be before you get old), things are going to start sucking really bad. But at least the overpopulation problem will be solved.
2 ups, 6y,
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Romania isnt considered a first world country, but Japan for example, is. https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm
So, I think I agree with you on evolution. As a species, we are getting smarter, because our intelligence is translated into things that help all of us. You dont need any skill, or intelligence, and most importantly, any will to work. Our intelligence lets us manipulate the environment to be fit to it, to a degree. When oil runs out. We will just go to nuclear power or something. There are universes ahead. Humans arent going to get to the point where we've used everything we can possibly get.
2 ups, 6y,
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My mistake, but you're missing the overall point on that. Isn't "Third World" often flinged as a basically racist slight? Ever see how many folks live down South and other parts of the US? Hardly developed, and their economy has been moribund since slavery ended.

Individual human IQs have been improving because of improved nutrition, better living standards, more for people to focus on in terms of intellectual stimulation rather than on just trying to not die, etc. Pooling it has its advantages, but is limited. Banking on someone one day to save us last minute is naive.

It's not coincidental that the modern age coincided with the oil age. Oil has been readily available, versatile, abundant, cheap. No one is doing what oil does with nuclear or coal or wind because they simply cannot or it's just not cost effective. Not just fuel, but plastics and other industrial uses. You know those mega trucks and bulldozers with giant wheels? There isn't enough lithium batteries to make them things move, let alone without running out of jiuce in under a mile if they could. Same with planes. The increase in size and weight needed to carry them cancels out what they can do, and no coal engines are going to make them fly.

Plastics from plants? Sure, as long as we find a substitute for the oil needed to farm, transport, and manufacture them. Not to mention the acreage and water that now won't be used for growing food.
Ethanol uses more fuel to make than it creates.

Fracking is using up your future emergency stores. Now folks are buying SUVs to burn cheaper gas that Ford and others aren't even making regular cars anymore.

The problem with humans is that they've made the mistake of thinking they're smart.
1 up, 6y
Some people are too confident, but some think to little of our species. And if you think the South is "third world" you've never been to a third world country.
We could run out of oil between 2100 and 2300 about, but nuclear energy. And oil is hardly used, coal is. Do you have proof that nuclear energy is less powerful or effective than coal? http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/Breakdown-of-Electricity-Generation-by-Energy-Source#tspQvChart
A good amount is nuclear and hydroelectric.
2 ups, 6y,
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Ah, well I couldn't say anything about that really...I'm not an evolutionist anyway ;-)
2 ups, 6y,
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Or just dont help them so much. It would do the society a world of good. Not an evolutionist. Maybe our divine creation is though evolution, it is just God's method. We learn things scientifically from the ground up, and religion teaches from the top down. Evolution is fact, but that doesnt mean there is no God above it.
2 ups, 6y,
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What it all boils down to is that we can't be certain of how it all came to be, but we can come to the general conclusion that the world is an extremely complex thing and that evolution would seem to be a less suitable explaination than would the idea of an intelligent, planned creation event. That said, there is little doubt that some forms of evolution do take place. It all depends on what makes the most sense in your individual perspective :-)
3 ups, 6y,
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Evolution is more provable than super natural creation. I can almost certainly say evolution is true
2 ups, 6y,
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Although science is unable to actually Prove anything, there is evidence that the accounts contained in the Bible are indeed true. Most evidence pointed either way is subject to criticism, however, as different perspectives have different interpretations of the same natural facts. It's a doozy, but there is exactly one correct explaination. Of course some people couldn't care less, but the issue of the origin of the universe has far-reaching implications ;-)
3 ups, 6y
You typing that is proving science.
But you can alway unplug from the web and use prayer to comment and see how far that gets you.

There is little evidence to back most of the Bible. Even Jerusalem isn't located where Jerusalem is supposed to be.
2 ups, 6y,
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And by the way I really liked your "fake $10 bill" meme. That looks like some pretty nasty stuff lol. I've seen religious tracts before that resemble real money (I actually have a couple in my drawer), but leaving them in place of a tip is just going too far :-$
2 ups, 6y
Lol yeah. It's not a very nice or Christian thing to do!
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