funny, i work with evolution as a job... not fossils and dna, but computer software, neural networks and such. if there was anything wrong with the the theory i haven't found a problem with.
Ok as for humans well modern medicine and lifestyle keeps alive people who would have otherwise not survived or reproduced due to their inferior genes. People with bad genes now can also comfortably reproduce, even people with severe abnormalities can live normal lives, get married, have kids. IVF and such also ensures classical genetic evolution is dead.
Even people who do stupid things and injure themselves are much more likely to survive these days.
so not only should the gene pool be rotting to s**t, we should also on average be getting stupider....... it doesn't seem that way.
this is a topic for another post (might start one), but has human evolution really stopped?
why has average IQ risen 10-15% across the last century (the reality is we are just better at IQ test-type mental skills, but this is controversial).
how do you explain video games and extreme sports, where participants have incredible mental and physical skills that did not exist a few decades ago?
how do you explain that in the last 20 years theres been more scientific papers published than in all of the previous 200 years?
The total content of the internet is already more than every writen word writen down in the past 5000 years. In the next decade there will be more written knowledge created than in all of human history to date. Scientific and technological progress is increasing at a exponential rate also.
It took 6 billion people to get einstein, darwin and hawking, where if natural selection was still functional it'd be alot less:
Evolution is still happening, its just natural selection is not. The worlds population has been increasing drasticly because people are simply not dying and breeding more successfully. If you have a unsucessful genetic combination (a poor upbringing too, i haven't ignored that), you end up in with the other 99% of humanity working 9-5 (or not) and making no significant contribution to the pool of human achievement.
All of humanity gauges its sucess based on the endeavour of a few.
It really is only 1% of us that are scientists, artisans, achievers and leaders. Modern society allows the rare few brilliant people to make a much huge impact across the whole of humanity. The large majority of mankind is human waste.
The UN is concerned about a worldwide population CRASH around 2050, as the overpopulation problem seems to be about to turn on its head.
