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Old 01-20-2007, 10:34 PM  
theruyan
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Originally Posted by BoyAlley View Post
In the wild, the strongest survive, and reproduce, to create a strong healthy new generation.

In humans, people are now wanting to purposely use genetic selection and engineering to create a new generation of people that have the same diseases, defects, and deformities as them.

No joke.



Talk about throwing survival of the fittest out the window. What do things like this say about the future gene pool of our species?
I agree with your sentiment here, BA, yes it is a disgusting thing.

The part I would disagree with you on is the semantics of the theory of evolution. Natural selection does not mean that the "best" or even the strongest or most intelligent survive to pass on their dna, natural selection selects for those who are able pass on their dna (breed) before dying, adapt to the enviornment, and not much more. There's a lot of junk dna that gets passed down, humans are something like 90% junk and bacteria dna. Natural selection is truly the blind watchmaker and you can see the ugly results when looking at the dna from almost any living organism today. It's an ugly, haphazard process and certainly doesn't need any assistance from idiots like the ones in the article you posted!
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