What will man become?

[Mr Skeptic]

Considering that mutations are sometimes passed on and the population of the earth is increasing in a geometric progression extinction is inevitable. It amuses me that people who claim to think scientifically have not noticed that we are losing species to extinction a bit faster than we gain them and this appears to have been the case from the beginning.

 

Without mutations, we would have gone extinct long ago, since mutations would make new types of diseases and we would not get new resistances. For example, the delta-32 mutation gave people immunity to the Plague, and now grants immunity to HIV (which uses the same infection pathway as the Plague). But soon all that will be moot, since we will be modifying our genes faster and more effectively than evolution.

 

You watch to much science fiction . After all if evolution is true humans are just another animal.

 

Yes, and that absolutely horrifies people who think that the world and even an omnipotent god revolves around them, and that their spirit will live forever. After all, even the Bible says you can't tell that man is different than an animal.

I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19

Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal.

Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"

--King Solomon, the wisest man according to the Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:18-21

[Sayonara]

The thing is with the different rates for extinction and speciation, is that an emerging species does not have to be "fully speciated" to fill the niche that an extinct species has vacated. So long speciation periods might not actually matter that much, ecologically speaking.