Has evolution ended with us or is a "better" version of ourselves coming?

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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Maybe over million of years a less predatory and violent form will take over just like we did from the Neanderthal. Your thoughts are encouraged but I can't guarantee that they won't be disparaged...
 

Great point! How can perfection be improved? :D
 

Well, in any species there is always some more evolved than others. It probably has something to do with patterns of breeding...
 
Evolution isn't a final process nor is it a process that always produces the best result. Gains in some areas will cause losses in others. Inflammation is a good example. It was pretty useful a long time ago if one got bit in the rear by a saber tooth, but causes way to many problems in modern man. Evolution is DNAs way of playing the odds on favorite. No promises on the best mix. Could be a simple virus or a complex set up such as mammals. How evolved something is assumes some previous definition or classification system but really involves some type of ladder putting humans at the top. Usually getting or having something else pick up the work load. Beasts of burden, computers, slaves. Has nothing to do with how the dice will end up.
 
Can't really worry about it, we have our time as the dinosaurs did, our fate will be met in kind in time and life on earth possibly will go on with whatever forms from the leftover DNA or not. Could happen today or some 100s of years from now.
 
Humanity is headed for a brick wall. A combination of Overpopulation, and Automation is going to create a crisis before the end of this century that will validate many of the Biblical predictions of Armageddon. Half the global population already lives in poverty, and the population will nearly double by the year 2100. At some point, in another few decades, all Hell is going to break loose, and there will be one more Massive War. It will not be Nation against Nation, but rather the Have's vs. the Have-Not's. It will depend upon whether the Have's run out of bullets, before the Have Not's run out of bodies.

If the Haves win, nations will come together under a common government and language, and Mankind will reach for the Stars. If the Have Not's win, humanity will revert back to the Dark Ages.

None of us Seniors will live to see this day, but our Grandkids, and beyond, will face a future that few alive today can imagine.
 
We could hope to be here as long as the Dino's, so far we ain't close. He who has the most whiskey wins.
 
In terms of how long this planet has supported life, Humans are just a blink of the eye. What the future holds is anyone's guess, but our supposed "superiority" could be our biggest risk towards longevity.
 
rt3 said:
We could hope to be here as long as the Dino's, so far we ain't close. He who has the most whiskey wins.
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You are right, we haven't come close yet to the years that dinosaurs roamed the earth. So whatever species is going to come after us [who knows what?] could well be entirely different, perhaps an entirely new thing [like us.]The creationists will not like to hear this of course.
 
rt3 said:
We could hope to be here as long as the Dino's, so far we ain't close. He who has the most whiskey wins.
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I never said we would be here as long, just that we will be till out time is up whenever that will be, and then whatever new specie forms, so be it, but, I'm not worrying in the mean time. Our time just might be that we kill each other off by nuking each other if a meteorite doesn't do it first.
 
My own view is that in the next several hundred years human life on planet earth will be extremely stressed by the effects of global warming. It really is very hard to imagine what traits will contribute most to survival is a world of severe competition for resources. I fear altruism will not be one of them. I'm sure cockroaches will be here when we're gone, so maybe some genetic engineering with some cockroach DNA will be the answer.
 
Josiah09 said:
My own view is that in the next several hundred years human life on planet earth will be extremely stressed by the effects of global warming. It really is very hard to imagine what traits will contribute most to survival is a world of severe competition for resources. I fear altruism will not be one of them. I'm sure cockroaches will be here when we're gone, so maybe some genetic engineering with some cockroach DNA will be the answer.
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Humans face some severe challenges in the future...Overpopulation, Climate Change, and Automation...just to name a few. Any one of these could be catastrophic, but all 3 coming together in a short period of time is going to make for some very hard times.
 
Not robots, machines, artificial intelligence, or a better version of ourselves, but "cockroaches"!!!
They will survive to the bitter end.
Yeah, cockroaches of the world! :king:
 
Humans are the only species to worry about things like time, the end of time, the beginning of time, the passage of time, what came before, what may or may not come after, overpopulation ...

I could go on and on, because humans are also the only species to make lists ... :D

And yet some humans think they are superior to every other form of life! lol
 
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