The Evolution of Oliver Curry

<thus causing a divide into a genetic upper-class and a dim-witted underclass>

Recent casual observations might suggest that this process is well underway.

Woof!!! That's really messed up thinking!!!

Technology doesn't just happen, someone has to think it up and make it. I'm guessing those that are most dependent on technology, according to Curry, would simply be cast out as some sort of deviant mutation that can't exist by itself.

I think "A Brave New World" scenario would develop before then.

Also, Curry is expecting humans to evolve to some predetermined sense of beaty... I guess he didn't know that Spanish women with the hairiest legs were considered the most desirable because they were the most not like Indians, which were considered a subspecies!

Someday, a new species may appear that is superior to homosapians, but I'm guessing it will be less dependent on technology rather than more dependent.

"I'm guessing those that are most dependent on technology, according to Curry, would simply be cast out as some sort of deviant mutation that can't exist by itself"

That'll surely include car users and their infernal satnavs

With the current movement away from "family" and neighborhoods where folks do not know their neighbors, his prediction may not be as far fetched as should be.

I do beleive that, with public action, the trend can be reversed and we can have "family" back and get to know our neighbors... Get off our cell phones, turn off the TV and video games and go outside, next door and have a neighborhood cookout.

Also, go to church... be active in your religion, whatever it is.

WE can go down fighting... or conquer. OOOppps sounds like a soapbox lecture.

Sorry. I get emotional about this...

"We may have come a long way, but where are we going? Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry believes that humans will evolve into two separate sub-species."

The general tenor of the news media is that all of man-kind is on a slippery downward slope which appears to grow steeper day by day. That which was abhorrent to most of the population is now approved and even encouraged and we as a whole call it progress, or liberation or some other term for self approval of what was once totally disapproved of and prohibited in normal society.

A state of affairs referred to as "Going to Hell in a Handbasker."

Wouldn't the opposite be true

the less intelligent will reproduce unchecked, while the supposedly superior more intelligent will wait longer & have less children.

The divide between the genetic classes will produce a hardier lower class as their access to health care will decrease as the monetary gap between the classes increases. The higher mortality will be more than offset by the increased reproduction rate.

Vhen da Furah says ve is da Master Race...

ve go phhtf, phhtf right in the Furah's face.

<....the less intelligent will reproduce unchecked, while the supposedly superior more intelligent will wait longer & have less children. A state of affairs referred to as "Going to Hell in a Handbasker."....>

Q.E.D.

This type of "theory" is one of the drawbacks to people making their living from academia. After a while, you don't have to venture into the real world, and you can sit around thinking up goofy crap like this. Maybe the School of Economics should sitick with economics and leave the evolutionary theory alone. I don't see how the two subjects are that tightly connected.

Yes, Water Buffalo, folks should leave what we will look like in the future to God. He is in control of what happens here, good or "bad". We may not understand why, but ours is to just have faith that it will work out to our benefit in the "end".

I hope you're speaking for yourself.

If intelligent design is employed once again, I'm afraid we'll all die horribly painful and nasty deaths!!!

Are you saying intelligent design has been employed?

What was the pay?

What was the interview like?

Did intelligent design finish the job or is it an ongoing project?

An ongoing job sounds suspiciously like evolution!

We might have to have homeland security check [or would it be Blackwater] that out!

In a slightly different vein, what if children started appearing that were significantly more intelligent than the average individual. Furthermore, they all had a decidedly dwarfed "baby finger," and could make you feel inferior with a stare.

Would you accept these children as a newly evolved species of mankind, or would you hunt them down as spawn of the devil?

Just curious.

wait a minute. so all those movies about aliens from the 70s and 80s will come true?! we will be wearing one piece jump suits, made outta some flexable plastic painted silver, and all look alike?! evolution wont let us evolves, well die out from some strain of smallpox that we created in a lab and let loose as a failed controled test.

My guess is you'll never even see it coming. You'll go to work one day and some kid will be doing your job and the jobs of your coworkers.

Then, you'll here the little punk exclaim, "Hey! Is this it?! I mean I could put together parts out of the office supply room that could do this for you for free!"

That's when you go looking for the smallpox.

By the way, if he offers you a banana, he's probably got the smallpox covered, too.