RE: [asa] Re: Endgame

Gordon said: "I seem to recall reading in some secular publication that Francis Collins believes that humans will not evolve into something else."

I'd like to see that quote in context. I don't see how anyone who accepts evolution would think that we would still be the same in 2 million years from now (as if we were even the "same" now).

The really interesting thing about human evolution is that humans are the only creature interbreeding all over the world- no geographic separation at all (a few isolated tribes aren't really all that isolated, and won't be isolated too much in the next 1 million years). This worldwide interbreeding likely slows everything down- or may create a brand new effect never before seen in biological evolution.

...Bernie

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Subject: RE: [asa] Re: Endgame

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Dehler, Bernie wrote:

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> As far as I know, everyone who accepts biological evolution also thinks that biology is still evolving- we have seen the end of nothing, biologically. And if we stay on earth for another 1 to 3 million years, then I'd expect to see some major biological changes. And knowing humans, these biological changes WILL be directed/influenced by the human mind (known as "intelligent design," I suppose) via human genetic engineering. What we can do will be influenced by our ethics (known as memes). This brings up an interesting idea of memes being a major evolutionary mechanism upon genes, whereas memes arose from genes.
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I seem to recall reading in some secular publication that Francis Collins
believes that humans will not evolve into something else.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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