Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution 398
movesguy sends us to The Daily Galaxy for comments by Stephen Hawking about how humans are evolving in a different way than any species before us. Quoting:
"'At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information. I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race,' Hawking said. In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, 'an external transmission phase,' where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. 'But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage,' Hawking says, 'has grown enormously. Some people would use the term evolution only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes.'"
We're doomed... (Score:5, Funny)
If Hawking is saying our evolution is now dependent on our (for most people) public education system... we're fucked.
Pack your bags, it's Idiocracy time.
Re:Memes (Score:3, Funny)
That depends ... is the mom hot?
Consequence-free sex wins every time.
Re:What's his point? (Score:4, Funny)
i didnt put my hand through my buddys guts at Normandy to hear you spew...
ohhhhh...it means what????
sorry....carry on...
Re:...someone page kurzweil... (Score:2, Funny)
No it isn't.
Re:Write about what you know (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Evolution does not work solely through mutation (Score:5, Funny)
Evolution also needs variation. Mutation is one mechanism which provides that (though not the only one).
Monsanto is another one.
Meme-A-Holic (Score:3, Funny)
Evolution my ass ! (Score:1, Funny)
I am totally "mesmerized" (! can't believe I wrote that word, but I wanted the most grand and elegant expression for - fucking unbelievable !!!!X@&%$!@-+_@#()*#@@) that someone who is supposed to be as smart as Hawking and he believes in CCCRRRRAAAAPPPP like evolution of the human race (yes us) from an elementary cell !!!!!!! But then I come to think about it, Indians are great in math, hydraulics, science and programming, and yet they believe that their destinies and fortune are controlled by cows ! And ancient Egyptians also believed that they would be judged in the after-world by a half-man half-hawk (or something to that effect) and they worshiped a bundle of creatures that can surpass anybody's imagination : hawks, rhinos, birds, cats, frogs, coyotes, alligators .... and again they were a smart civilization - they built Pyramids and other stuff.
Its like farting out loud in a fully dressed formal consulate dinner in the presence of 200 people and not even being bothered of what people would think ...
The final simple / logical / un-debatable fact is that GOD created us, and there is ONLY ONE GOD. Like it or not, its THE FACT.
Re:What's his point? (Score:3, Funny)