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Transhumanism vs. Natural Selection: Playing God in the post-Darwinian era?

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RAZD
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09-25-2005 8:48 AM 		Reply to: Message 17 by uvscfan
07-10-2005 11:15 PM

Cognitive ability vs creativity in selection
uvscfan writes:
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the impact it might have on the evolution of the species since the groups with the lowest IQ's are reproducing at a much higher rate than those with the highest IQ's.
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All this shows is that {intelligence} is not a sexual selection feature or one that is consistently selected for across the population base.
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We already knew this from observing the types of people that {teens\young adults} are attracted to: pop-stars are generally not known for their intelligence, and {scientists\intellectuals} do not (by and large) have groupies.
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We also know that {beauty} is not specifically selected for, because experiments have shown that the most (judged) beautiful {faces\people} are computer composites that average the features of many people even whey they are not {beautiful} to begin with. What we call {beauty} then is nothing more than a template for {average}, a means of driving the population towards stasis in evolution. Also, movie stars are not particularly known for their intelligence, and {scientists\intellectuals} do not (by and large) have fan clubs.
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What these {selection icons} have in common is {apparent creativity}.
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Welcome to the fray, and enjoy.
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This message has been edited by RAZD, 09*25*2005 08:50 AM
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09-25-2005 9:01 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by dsv
06-12-2005 8:14 PM

Intelligent Design, coming soon to a needle near you?
Interesting topic and discussion, even if it is getting side-tracked a little by {intelligence\racism} issues.
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What I see is an increasing trend to use intelligent design on ourselves -- real intelligent design, based on goals and full evaluation of alternatives, and the increasing possibility of making actual direct changes to genes.
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And of course when this occurs (1) there will be an observable difference between the effects of design and what the "neo-paleyists" claim, and (2) the {all change is bad} crowd will be vocal in opposition.
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For instance, there is talk of making viruses that will improve resistance to diseases or fix certain genetic errors (diabetes, sickle-cell, etc).
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Enjoy.
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