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Traditional Catholic Faith => Catholic Living in the Modern World => Topic started by: Matthew on March 03, 2009, 10:35:05 PM
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I have know about the Macro and Micro evolution differences for sometime and agree. However, there is a third type of evolution. Hasn't man evolved over the many thousands of years in knowledge, skills and abilities? We ride in cars and airplanes now days, we've gone to the moon. I don't think they did those things 500 years ago.
Dick Bedwell
No, our skills might have changed, but we haven't "evolved".
The average American (I choose American since it's the only nation I know that well) doesn't know much of anything about purifying water, growing food, tending animals, maintaining health -- very fundamental and basic knowledge you can't just "exempt yourself from" since it hits very close to home. And it's knowledge a 12-year-old would have had, only a couple hundred years ago. Likewise, our minds have atrophied such that the average sentence has far fewer words, etc.
I don't believe man has evolved at all. Technology is a double edged sword at best. For every advance (air conditioning) you give up something (engineering techniques to block out the summer sun, mortification, ability to endure temperatures of less than 65 degrees and more than 73 degrees, etc.)
Matthew
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Someone said:
While man's technology has improved over time, along with his medicine and dentistry, biologically he is pretty much the same as God made him.
As I said in my other post, I wouldn't even necessarily grant man that much advancement.
Medicine-wise, our technology only serves to heal the damage done by OTHER technology.
If we didn't have high-stress lifestyles, cell phones, TVs, etc. we wouldn't need heart-bypass surgery, etc.
The ancients were lacking some knowledge we have now, to be sure, but they also knew a lot of things that we have forgotten (e.g., how to deliver a baby!)
Only midwives seem to have kept SOME of the art alive -- mainstream OBs jump to a C-section very quickly, with the result that the "C-section" is the most popular operation in the U.S.A., and
1 out of every 3 births is through this major surgery!
That wasn't the case two hundred years ago. "Simple" midwives knew all the tricks to deliver a baby.
Just one example.
Matthew
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Well, there is James Carville that makes even me wonder. Just kidding.