posted on May, 18 2009 @ 11:00 AM
No, it hasn't. This kind of thinking clearly how ill-informed people are about evolution, it isn't random, it isn't far-fetched, and it sure as
hell hasn't changed.
Find your own sources for this, it's something you should research anyway as it's sort of the process all life on the planet has followed (and I'm
lazy), but here's how DNA works (to put it short).
DNA is a "blueprint" for life on Earth. Each bar, each curve and each particle is like the 1's and 0's in binary, they don't mean a whole lot
alone, but in combination with other elements in your DNA, they give you your characteristics, everything from appearance to hereditary disease.
Throughout your life, your DNA literally changes in tiny portions, adding skills or physical adaptations that you have gained. When you reproduce,
your child gains pieces of your DNA as well as your mate's, adding those experiences to them. Genetic memory/animal instinct is in fact a being
acting on previous experiences of their ancestors imprinted into their DNA. This has been proven many times with simple experiments. For instance,
take 6 lab rats, 3 that can navigate a maze easily, 3 that can't. Breed 2 good ones, 2 bad ones, and one good and bad together, and you'll find the
good ones offspring can navigate easily, while the bad ones cannot, and the other ones vary as different DNA pieces are given to them from each
parent. This is also why we no longer seem to have "animal instinct." What I think is really happening there, is that we still have it, we just have
replaced the instincts of survival in the wild with survival in civilization through the many generations mankind has been in it's "civilized"
stage.
So no, evolution hasn't changed, we still go through the process, and unless we begin controlling our DNA to the point of a clone race, evolution
will continue in humans.
On the other hand, I'd like to point out that as we progress through technology, more and more people view it as an unnatural process, separating
technology from nature. In reality, technology is nothing more than another intended process of life, when you break down what we really are, there's
no such thing as unnatural.