"How did the Sycamore Tree develop seeds that fall to the ground like the blades of a helicopter? How does a tree understand aerodynamics? Did it have a prototype? Nature scary."
The human race has developed, along with all other life on earth, over very many thousands, millions and trillions of years. When you consider that there is no sentient mind behind it all, and that all life adapts by means of an extremely long winded process of trial and error, it makes sense that it would take so long.
But the world has changed.
Since the dawn of discovery, revelation and knowledge, the world has changed rapidly. Man has learnt to stretch his lifespan out twice or thrice as long as he once could, but at what cost?
Medicine cures diseases, and equally so do they create them. Much like dance partners, disease and medicine sway back and forth, constantly pressuring and improving one another. But disease and medicine can change in a month. A week. A day.
The human race has spent a very long time changing, very, very slowly. And when you consider the changes in our world we've had to adapt to in the years before the year 0 and the changes in the years following, there's a massive difference.
Will our DNA be able to accelerate its adaptation capabilities enough to keep up with a world that is changing more and more rapidly as the years go by? In the last 200 years the human body has been struck heavily by biological warfare, radiation, steroids, implants, chemically altered foods, air quality deterioration... and an incomprehensible accumulation of psychological afflictions.
For a race that traditionally has been given centuries to adapt to subtle changes in its environment, we're now facing a new threat to our health or stability of life each year.
Our bodies have done well to cope with all this, but I very much feel there are ten times more things to worry about in today's world than there was a thousand years ago.
Personally I wouldn't mind it if all my day involved was spearing a few wolves, finding a cave and getting a nice fire going.
"Science.... never solves a problem without creating ten more."
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Historical FictionPhilosophy. Philosophy is the fourth leg of the tri-pod. Philosophy is not an essential part of anything, but an inevitable part of everything. Here I impart upon thou my philosophical speculations, in regards to all things of this world that I dare...
