Are human beings evolving too rapidly?
By truthisgod
@truthisgod (106)
India
March 5, 2012 10:14am CST
We all know animals evolve over millions of years. The current human forms - body and brain - are the outcome of millions of years of evolutionary process. However, over a smaller time frame of few centuries or decades, do you think human brain has evolved enormously. What man has achieved in the last half century or a century is more than what man could achieve in the last several thousand years of civilization. Do you think at this rate man is truly emerging into a superman?
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@lctravenisk (483)
• Brazil
5 Mar 12
I don't think men are evolving too quickly. Actually, I don't believe the human beings are evolving. The humankind is just knowing how to use all its potencial. I don't know if our brain has changed a lot in the last thousand years, but now, with all the knowledge that we have access, we are learning on how to use it better.
For example, a lot of ideas that we have available nowadays were thought by other people a lot of years ago, but they just didn't have the necessary technology to implement it or to prove it. That is the real difference nowadays: we can think about something and we have a way to prove it and to use it in new products for the people. Happy mylotting.
@truthisgod (106)
• India
6 Mar 12
Aren't we also becoming innovative, technology driven and wiser at the same time. Haven't we devised ways to minimize and contain dangers of technologies? Yes, it's true that mankind always wanted to fly, to communicate long distance, to move at great speed, to contain deadly diseases and so on but it is only now that they have begun to realize or fulfill their dreams. In other words, today man not only dreams but believes they can accomplish what they dream. Isn't it a great leap forward if not technically an evolution?
@lctravenisk (483)
• Brazil
6 Mar 12
I don't think it is technically an evolution. As I said, a lot of things that the men are doing nowadays are old ideas that can just be implemented now, because when a person had it, the technology was not evolved enough.
It is a process similar that happens with Galileo. He said the Earth rounds around the sun, but no one believe him and he didn't have enough technology to prove it without doubt. After a few years the man developed it and proved that he was right.
Nowadays the men have technology to prove and to use the old ideas. And more than this, the men are able to try a lot of different things, with all the tests they can do. But as I see it, it is not a evolution of the human being, but it looks more as a evolution of the humankind. Can you see it? Happy mylotting.
@dazzledlady (1618)
• Philippines
5 Mar 12
Human are truly evolving through out time but I dont think that we are in the road for turning in to superman. We are still in the quest of finding cures for diseases and making our lives more comfortable by inventing robots. Maybe when all of this are achieve when man can focus on being superman or being super human like in captain America movie.
@truthisgod (106)
• India
6 Mar 12
Yes, I agree. I don't mean super physical prowess but supermen in wisdom, spirituality and in abilities to choose the best for sentient beings. For instance, several decades or centuries ago, man did not bother about animals. In fact animals were treated cruelly. Today we are talking of animal rights. We are talking about the right of prisoners and the prisoners of wars, right of human beings. We are talking of human dignity, of global peace etc. the concepts which were alien not very long back.
