We Don’t Seem to be Evolving? My Thoughts – Sunday August 18th 2024

We Don’t Seem to be Evolving? My Thoughts – Sunday August 18th 2024

We are evolving I believe, in many ways, very slowly, but not so much in a visible way.

Evolving occurs all the time, however when external or internal circumstances require necessary and sudden adaptation, it can happen quite quickly.

The climate for example, we have air conditioners and pools etc., so we utilize technology to adapt for us. The animals etc. in the wild have to adapt. I recall a species of goat I think it was, turning nocturnal and foraging at night. Which isn’t very safe if there are predators, so if these goats persist in nocturnal feeding and presumably, the heat of the day is such that they cannot cope ie., collapse or organ failures, then survival at night will have their vision change and molecular activity will start to evolve this for them. Their hearing and sense of smell will change to some degree as well, in order to cope with the other night animals. This is part of evolution and why it behaves like a design in my view.

Another different example is when poeple do things like the Bajau people who can dive and hold their breath for some minutes. Doing this causes a change over time. So we can drive some forms of evolution and then there are those forms that are necessary for survival.

So we ourselves are not evolving in any profound way because we use technologies.

It could be nowadays a rare thing to pen a letter, because we are mostly using technology and typing/dictating etc. In a century from now what will be handwritten?

Technology is a great thing, but if you start not to use certain skills, then you can lose them without realizing it. (Over time of course).

We drive cars, long ago we had to walk long distances and we wouldn’t dream of walking those distances now. We possibly, physically couldn’t either, so that’s a form of evolving. And how in our way we protect ourselves from changes that prompt some aspects of evolution/new adaptations.

I would like to state though that it’s to be hoped that we can intervene on the climate course, because so many creatures aren’t going to manage. From sea and land. Bacteria and bugs will boom in warm oceans for example and cause terrible sicknesses. So we really need to get moving on it for them.

Fiona MacLeod (C)