re: #987 Salamantis

Evolution is a hundred and fifty years old.

And yes, modern IS superior to ancient - FAR superior, at least as far as quality and longevity of human life is concerned. We know more than we did about the world before, and this allows us to do more. It is better for us to have vaccines to prevent disease and antibiotics to treat it than not to have them.

It is better for us to have nuclear power, and computers, and TVs, and telephones, and plastics, and lasers, and automobiles, and airplanes, and gene splicing, and gene sequencing, and the Large Hadron Collider, and the Hubble space telescope, than not to have them. To maintain otherwise is to engage in a strange luddite variant of terminally relativist postmodernism.

If Evolution is happening, it has/is happening from the beginning of time. The vaccines to prevent diseases are going directly against evolution by definition, thus allowing humans to keep on breeding humans that are not resistant to these diseases. Look around, I’m sure there’s some humans you’ve encountered that you believe should not be allowed to breed. But, who gets to decide? The rich, the poor, the afflicted? It seems humans, (read science) are/is trying to stop evolution to overcome nature.
All the gadgets in the world does not make life better, just more comfortable for human environment. Some in the list may well eliminate this environment and I may be the only human who thinks we are not here to be more comfortable, or “modern.”