From: YP Fun (ypprotection@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 20:40:08 MDT
--- CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 5/2/02 18:00:32,
> ypprotection@yahoo.com writes:
>
> >There is nothing wrong with creating a super-human
> >per-se but evolution comes about because of genetic
> >mutation. Embryo screening would eventually yield
> >a very high quality human being that cannot only
> >survive in the ideal environment.
>
> Adapative evolution results from diversity (from
> mutation)
> plus selection. Embryo screening just improves the
Only selection is no longer an arbitary
random variable.
Selection is hand-picked and contrived.
> selection
> process - mutation isn't affected at all. There's
> no particular
> reason that selection for good traits would limit
> the target
> only to one ideal environment, anymore than any
> other selection.
Perhaps not for an ideal environment (close enough
though) but definitely for an ideal trait.
We would have removed what use to be a random factor.
> fertilizerers will
> be able to determine such genetics of children.
> Will society
> force them to bear the children expected to be
> inferior? I
> don't see it.
I argue that reducing variety will be detrimental
to human evolution. To some extend we breed farm
animals to be optimal for milking production and
consumption. Domestic cows can no longer survive
on their own without the assistance of humun
cultivation. Yet they are "PERFECT" at what it
is that they do. DAIRY COWS will efficiently produce
milk.
Unfortunately variety once removed is difficult
to get back. Say for example we manage to collect
all the intelligence genes from Einstein and we
propagate all those genes. Perhaps many
of one generation will have einstein intelligence
genes. For that generation the intelligence
gene pool would have been significantly reduced. To
get those genes back we would have to wait for a few
generations of mutations maybe more.
YP
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