Comments on: No More Evolution for You, Says British Scientist

By: Harish

Harish — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:43:55 +0000

Man is a conceited being, and likes to believe he understands nature. Just like a surgeon who decides to operate the heart and internal organs and thinks he is in control of what is happening in the patient. A group of surgeons operated my wife for Budd Chiari, they cut open the heart, the IVC, liver and what not, they supplied many drugs and artificially controlled blood cltiitng , brain sustenance etc. How audatious! She died and Doctos in Columbia Asis yeshwanthpur never had a clue what went wrong. She died quickly. Play God! Man is NOt God. But man has the arrogance that he is God.

Steve Jones might as well make a correction -’evolution as it is traditionally known’. How can we miss the fact that evolution is adaptive in nature?

It is perhaps too presumptious to assume that we can understand what goes on in nature especially in time periods beyond our comprehension. We can make a theory and present it, but nobody knows how true it is. Some things should be best left to God. or Nature.

Harish
harish.k.srinivas@gmail.com

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By: Arthur

Arthur — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:10:22 +0000

Sound much like a statement made I believe in the late 1800’s that nearly everything there was to learn in science was already known. And then we discovered the quantum world. Oops bet they blushed In their graves.

By: Travis Cottreau

Travis Cottreau — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:35:06 +0000

All his points mean is that selection criteria have changed. It doesn’t mean selection doesn’t happen. Natural selection isn’t just earth death, it is also why individuals choose certain mates. Look at humans today and tell me that they aren’t being picky. That is what would be required to stop natural selection from happening.

As long as humans continue to reproduce and selection criteria are what they are, you will see shifts in that direction. It’s inevitable.

By: Noel Boaz

Noel Boaz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:42:47 +0000

What drivel. In the first place the species name is Homo sapiens. I doubt seriously that there is 98% survival rate of individuals even in the “developed world” and even so what about most of the rest of the species? It is well known that evolution can and does occur in large populations, and data on recent human evolution shows that. As just one example, high population densities in the Middle Ages in Europe facilitated large-scale mortality during the Black Death, which was undoubtedly a major selective event in human evolution.