oldfella1962
Senior Member
great article! The part about evolutionary medicine was my favorite. Definitely my belief that we as a species have evolved an incredibly functional & efficient body, but modern society is degrading it's potential. Smoking, drug/alcohol abuse, obesity/lack of exercise is rapidly degrading our individual bodies and our gene pool that we took so long to perfect.
Forming humans out of clay fully functional sounds great in theory, but I'll believe in the "slow & steady" route of evolution myself. Too much evidence of other primate species & proto-humans (plus up to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA in some of us) and skull shapes & brain capacity changing over time for me to think otherwise.
BTW the most IGNORANT comment against evolution I ever heard came from a senior NCO when I was in the army: "they've had that gorilla in the Atlanta Zoo for over ten years now, and he ain't evolved YET!"
Seriously - where to even begin having an intelligent conversation with somebody when this is their level of understanding of the process?