This is America:

Seems humans not getting smarter

Much has been made lately in this paper about the theory of evolution vs. creationism. By these very labels, evolution is made to sound proper as a scientific principle while creation is an afterthought as an “ism”. I agree that species have adapted and changed to their environments over the eons. But if this were an absolute, wouldn’t the human race become more intelligent as time goes by? I look around and don’t see it.

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Naturally there is talk of gun control after the massacre of last week. Are the nations that don’t allow guns talking of knife control? In some countries, people go crazy in crowds with knives. Oops, political correctness faux pas; I said crazy.

I have a cousin who was in Little Rock in 1990 in the Air Force. He told me last Saturday about a rash of high school suicides while he was there. The news covered every one like a blanket. There were more and more until someone decided not to mention the deceased ones names, to mention the act in passing and move on with the news. Suddenly the suicides stopped. Is there a lesson to be learned here? Can we evolve past this current era of tons of data but no information? All the sharing of feelings and trying to prove how much we care?

Its presumed anymore that if you don’t wear you heart on your sleeve, you don’t care. Having 24 hours a day to fill on TV doesn’t help. The murderer was said to be intelligent; to what degree, we’ll never know.

John Shultz
Doniphan

Yes, that’s why we see so many people killing each other - because we share our feelings too much.

And it’s proof against evolution.

So there.