++ [ originally posted by swag
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Sure, look at the past 200 years and it looks like we stopped evolving when you compare it to, say, 20,000 years ago. But our lifetimes are just specks on the timeline of evolution. I can't imagine looking 20,000 years into the future to say that somehow mankind didn't evolve as much as it did in the past 20,000 years. It's myopic to think our miniscule lives and cute little societies are that significant on the scale of evolution. The industrial revolution was but a blink of the eye.
Evolution is force like wide flowing river ... like the shift of the earth's continental plates. We build fortresses, castles, cities, etc., that in our lifetimes seem so sturdy and permanent, but the continued forces of erosion, earthquakes, volcanic flows, and the moving continental plates will ultimately crumble all of it to tiny bits of sand.
Come back to me in 20,000 years and tell me that man stopped evolving...