Ravus said:

OldWoodSpecter said:

Ravus said:

Natural selection would be an excellent master.

For example, loving the taste of cyanide unconditionally would not be good. Loving stable, beautiful women who will provide you with children would be.

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As humans are no longer affected by natural selection if they stay within the walls of the city, they can chose any master they wish.

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As long as an organism is mortal and reproduces, natural selection will govern that species over the eons.

In the short-term we can use what natural selection has given us and deny that it has done anything and claim we have a new master. But in the long term, evolution proves itself to no one; its truth lies in the effects it has, not in any praise it receives. The whole world could be ruled by creationist Southern hicks and natural selection would still go on changing humanity as always.

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