Wouldn’t Evolution mean people should be getting smarter, more perfect?
Sound’s more like we’re De-evolving not evolving then doesn’t it?
(note for the record: I do not believe in evolution, I believe in a Creator who has a divine plan for mankind and in our everyday life whatever happens to us is due to choices or cause and effect)
Natural selection used to be about the survival of the fittest.
Now being fitter or better isn’t a prerequisite for passing your seed onto the next generation.
If anything the opposite is true. The welfare state encourages the laziest and most dependant segment of society to breed like rabbits.
No, evolution being a mere mechanism, there is no reason why it would tend to produce creatures that are smarter or more perfect, by our lights anyway. Evolution just tends to sort out those who manage to survive and reproduce most successfully. We appreciate some of evolutions effects more than others, but that’s just an aesthetic judgement from our point of view.
Consider this - many animals have evolved certain features that are helpful in enhancing mating success, such as the peacocks tail. Some have reached an evolutionary dead end due to over-development of such features, such that they work against reproduction and survival. Arguably the peacock has reached that point as they cannot survive in the wild now, they are a domesticated species. What if intelligence is just our species’ peacocks tail ? Maybe it has reached the limit of its value, and less intelligence is better for survival ?