...due to technology, medicine, and probably emotions and other human oddities, we have pretty much changed the natural course of evolution.

This statement assumes or implies two points which I simply do not believe:

The first is that humanity is somehow fundamentally separated from nature. We aren't. Anything that we do that changes the course of our evolution is, in itself, part of the natural course of evolution.

Opposable thumbs, lack of body hair and access to the Internet do not put any significant distance between "us" and "nature."

We haven't changed the course of our "natural evolution" any more than the first hypothetical marine creatures crawling onto the beach changed the course of their natural evolution. What we're doing is our natural evolution.

Secondly, to state that we have gone against the natural order seems to imply that we have done something wrong... and that would seem to imply that humanity (either as a species or as a series of individuals) could somehow have avoided altering our evolutionary path.

We could not. Simply understanding that we can manipulate the genetic future of our species is, in and of itself, a significant evolutionary leap.

In short, to make the assumption that we can somehow separate ourselves from nature is to fall prey to the great sin of intellectual pride.

And god knows, we don't want that.

All of this is, of course, a moot point, since everyone knows that evolution is a myth anyway. If men were really descended from monkeys, we would certainly see evidence of primate bio-territorial behavior in our day-to-day lives.










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