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Are we evolving?
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<blockquote data-quote="Skaloop" data-source="post: 44604103" data-attributes="member: 148393"><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong><span style="color: Black">Not at all. Evolution applies to populations of living organisms. Everything in the universe may be <em>changing</em> but change in and of itself is not evolution.</span><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong><span style="color: Black">If any and all selective pressures were removed, I suppose so. But that's not reasonably doable.</span><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong><span style="color: Black">Since we are still subject to selective pressures, no.</span><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong><span style="color: Black">No. We are merely altering how they evolve compared to how they would evolve if in the wild.</span><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong><span style="color: Black">We are not unable to evolve, so no. We may inadvertently cause some sort of super-virus outbreak that devastates us too quickly to evolve a defense to, but we would still have the ability to evolve.</span><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong></strong><span style="color: Black">Pretty much every species is doomed to extinction. We may bring about our own more rapidly than what would occur naturally, but it's not for an inability to evolve.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skaloop, post: 44604103, member: 148393"] [COLOR=Blue][B] [/B][COLOR=Black]Not at all. Evolution applies to populations of living organisms. Everything in the universe may be [I]changing[/I] but change in and of itself is not evolution.[/COLOR][B] [/B][COLOR=Black]If any and all selective pressures were removed, I suppose so. But that's not reasonably doable.[/COLOR][B] [/B][COLOR=Black]Since we are still subject to selective pressures, no.[/COLOR][B] [/B][COLOR=Black]No. We are merely altering how they evolve compared to how they would evolve if in the wild.[/COLOR][B] [/B][COLOR=Black]We are not unable to evolve, so no. We may inadvertently cause some sort of super-virus outbreak that devastates us too quickly to evolve a defense to, but we would still have the ability to evolve.[/COLOR][B] [/B][COLOR=Black]Pretty much every species is doomed to extinction. We may bring about our own more rapidly than what would occur naturally, but it's not for an inability to evolve.[/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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