Friday, March 6, 2009

Some deny it but evolution lives.

Take note all ye unbelievers. Here is the proof.
New survival challenges are already working changes on the human organism. The Age of Electronics has succeeded the Age of Reason. Brains and physiques, adapted to struggle and survival in a vigorous physical world, are evolving into new forms.
People are already fatter, butts broader, and legs stumpier from sitting before TV and computer screens. Runts rule. Gym rats will be considered unevolved freaks. Unable to find mates, their fate is extinction.
Handwritten letters have become obsolete. The human hand will change shape. At first, fingers will become pointed to fit a keyboard without straddling two letters. Ultimately, as manual typing disappears, unused fingers will turn into vestigial stumps.
Without fingers, rings will move to pierced lips, noses and ears that will enlarge to handle the load. Hitchhikers and flippers of the bird will be stricken dumb.
Heads will get smaller as minds, already beginning to atrophy, shrink more. The three R’s become fossils. One advantage: Screwball Letters to the Editor will stop as computerized form letters, spell checkers, and electronic dictionaries replace even rudimentary literacy. Memory and manual calculations will give way to EDP.
Instead of reading we will listen to talking file folders. Verbal fluency will disappear as we grunt English trash-talk from our residual vocabulary of 153 monosyllables.
For once Creationists will be silenced, because not even God will be able to love this evolved image of himself.