"You think humans came from Apes? Have you been to the ballet? Swans, . . . maybe, but Apes? No way. Just another reason not to believe in evolution."
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7 comments:
I recently read this about evolution,
"Evolution could be defined as an increased cognitive understanding and concern about the universal environment. Petty personal and local issues that distract from that, are a sign of unwillingness to accept forward progress and a stronger position of security through realization and preparation. You can evolve the hair off of monkeys, put them in nice clothes, and surround them with sophistication, but if they're still only interested at throwing crap at each other and having monkey sex, they remain monkeys. They may look and act civilized, but they're still just monkeys. Steps of realization, understanding and preparation, for the continued survival of humanity, is where the entire planet needs to be. Anything less than that is a threat to the existence of all those who are willing to evolve. Just trying to see how many people's daughters you can get pregnant, while someone else is trying to figure out how to keep humanity alive, is not good enough. The population goes up, more resources are used, genetic propensity for anything other than the acquisition of sex gets bred out of the species, and just up space and uses resources. There are no guarantees to survival of the species."
Thought you might find that interesting. I love your blog by the way, love your insight, perspective and attitude, so keep it up. Oh yeah, also I do quite firmly believe in evolution. Theistic Evolution to be exact.
Cody =) Welcome!
Welcome Cody!! Thank you for your comment. I think there is great insight provided therein. We have the scientific know how to observe, discover, refine, and test the theory of evolution, but what are we doing with that knowledge? It seems that we are using it to trace our roots back to apes and to say, "look how ape-like we are!" Shouldn't we be doing the opposite and say "look how un-ape-like we are!" Look how far we've come and how much we've accomplished. The possibilities for future evolution are tremendous! I fear that, as a species, we are following some of the paths enlightened by this article and retrograding back to an animalistic heritage?
On a more positive note, this original post was in response to partaking in a performance of Swan Lake by the American Ballet Theater. (For those of you who are less inclined towards the arts, the dancers in "Center Stage" are from ABT. Several of them were dancing in this performance.) It was a spiritually rejuvenating experience. I thought about the amount of work that goes into a performances like that: the training of the musicians, the dancers, the costume designers, the set designers, etc. When the dancers were posed on stage every toe was pointed at the same angle, every arm was curved to the same degree, every move was artistically and meticulously rehearsed and presented. It gave me a new hope and vision of the exquisite beauty and goodness we are capable of when we sacrifice and work together.
What are we doing with our "knowledge" of evolution? We're fighting against natural selection by building hospitals and trying to cure diseases. I weighed around 5 lbs. when I was born early. I should have died, and would have if we really respected our evolutionary theories. And shouldn't we let the weak die so the species can progress? Yet we keep them alive at all costs.
I think that goes to show that compassion still trumps scientific understanding in our unconscious hierarchy of values. And that's another thing I'm grateful for.
Welcome Jared. :)
Amen. Compassion is often under-rated. Your comment turns my thoughts towards a debate about aborting diseased or handicapped babies. Some take the other extreme and argue that we should do more than let natural selection take its course, but should create our own natural selection. They argue that saving the child and parents from the hardships of handicapped life is "more compassionate".
Although I disagree with this argument I suppose we can take comfort in knowing that both sides share esteem for compassion.
Reg
I once had an investigator that believed in evolution but he started to look around him and realized that the world is to beautiful to have come from an explosion. but he then said but ever once in a while you see some people that look like monkeys and it makes ya think sometimes.
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