New Evolution

From the time of Darwin man has garnered a vast understanding of natural selection and its value to evolution. Granted, evolution takes time and thus survival requires this time as well. Sometimes the evolutionary process leaves a species behind. This is not a tragedy due in part to the space left vacant for another species to assume. I pondered this reality and tried to apply the basic principles of evolution and natural selection to modern humans. The model does not fit as precisely as even Darwin would have hoped. The reason for this is modern man's constant war against nature, attempting to survive. We happen to recognize the inevitability of our death and in turn we spend all our efforts to curtail this process.

What we are left with is a species speeding up the evolutionary process by furthering our ability to survive the diseases, disasters, and mutations without concern for why these pitfalls exist. They must be there serving some purpose. It is so far fetched to think that a group of people could survive even the most catastrophic of events, whether disease or disaster, to further the Human race. The skills learned and adaptations made would serve to grow the species stronger than before...more chance of survival. This has already happened in the past. Should we not be thinking about this as a reality and prepare. Prepare to pass on the correct information to those that will be the survivors, to those generations so far in the future we cannot contemplate it. Something has to change.

Humans have begun the process of using natural resources at paces beyond Nature's time frames. We are consuming at these frenetic paces because of our desire to defeat death. Imbalance always leads to a re-balance. We are just about to reach the height of the pendulous swing and the journey back to equilibrium is going to hurt.

Modern medicine is replacing the genetic growth that our species had enjoyed over some 30,000 years and we are now paying the price. We fight to make more people when we cannot even feed the ones already here. When is enough going to be enough. Nature will decide that and we will have to sit back watch.

Our brains have learned to utilize only so much of their power due to our egotistical decision making. Or have we really boarded the evolutionary train and took over engineer duties? While the latter sure fits our belief system, what if it isn't the case. What if the reality is we are driving the train...just driving it blind and deaf. I feel a big change coming in the way we inhabit this planet and participation is limited to anything on earth. Nature will have it's way, so we best prepare for the long-term.