There's actually a movie (a comedy) exactly about this. It's called "Idiocracy." watch it; it's funny :)
We do already know how to manipulate genes and gene therapy research is progressing nicely. We won't "de-evolve" into poop flinging monkeys in the next decade, so why worry? Who's to say what's "genetically superior" for our current environment, however artificial it is?
And that brings me to your other point, that high-school drop-outs, Muslim extremists, and rednecks have inferior genes... How do you figure that out? Do you really think someone's choice of religion and whether someone will drop out of high-school is genetically coded? You're deeply mistaken, you'll find. Also, are you claiming that someone who's career-focused necessarily has good genes? Or do you mean that someone with good genes will necessarily be career-focused? Seems to me you're oversimplifying everything to ridiculous proportions and then fretting about the result.
There actually has been a study that showed that indeed we dumbed down a bit from the Victorian era and this dumbing down will continue. But should we really be worried?
P.S. As seekelp pointed out, your understanding of the process of natural selection is a bit skewed.
IIN to think that we are messing up natural selection?
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There's actually a movie (a comedy) exactly about this. It's called "Idiocracy." watch it; it's funny :)
We do already know how to manipulate genes and gene therapy research is progressing nicely. We won't "de-evolve" into poop flinging monkeys in the next decade, so why worry? Who's to say what's "genetically superior" for our current environment, however artificial it is?
And that brings me to your other point, that high-school drop-outs, Muslim extremists, and rednecks have inferior genes... How do you figure that out? Do you really think someone's choice of religion and whether someone will drop out of high-school is genetically coded? You're deeply mistaken, you'll find. Also, are you claiming that someone who's career-focused necessarily has good genes? Or do you mean that someone with good genes will necessarily be career-focused? Seems to me you're oversimplifying everything to ridiculous proportions and then fretting about the result.
There actually has been a study that showed that indeed we dumbed down a bit from the Victorian era and this dumbing down will continue. But should we really be worried?
P.S. As seekelp pointed out, your understanding of the process of natural selection is a bit skewed.