Zippo , how many gay people have you spoken to? I mean seriously.
more than my fare share. and not all of them are assholes. but those that are assholes or idiots just piss me off.
zippo, the whole "next step in evolution" idea simply tells me you do not fully know the mechanics of evolution. at best, autists are just what we seem to be: an anomaly allowed to survive thanx to human society. granted, evolution comes from anomalies, but its nothing "meant to be" or "meant to turn into".
if autists are the next step, then homosexuals, people w downs, and pedophiles are the next step in evolution as well, paralel to us. every anomaly that veers off whats normal.
it becomes "true" evolution, once all other humans are dead, or completely separate (such as shipped off to another planet)
leaving nothing but autists.
or gays
or pedophiles.
i meant its plausible... as far as gay, we know some species of animals re-produce a-sexually... maybe thats what gays COULD be the start of. as far as AS, it could be just senses being heightened, as for evolution not being evolution until all others are gone or a separate species: not true, evolution is a constant and occurs in subtle changes over many many years. we may not be "evolved" until said conditions are met but we are always evolving.
then how to you explain bacteria?
they have remained unevolved for 3 billion years.
evolution is NOT a constant fact. it happens where its prompted to happen, and for some creatures do not evolve, because their environment dont prompt it: like bacteria, like fish (reptiles evolved from some fish, but not from others. some fish simply remain fish) chimps, they didnt evolve into humans, but stayed chimps, dogs and cats evolve from mungoose-like animals - - - and mungoose like animals still exist, in their old "unevolved" shape.
the best way to illustrate this is:
chimp
approx 6 million years ago, creatures as good as identical to chimpanzees lived in vast jungles. these jungles retreated, and created "bottlenecks" for these populations.
the affected populations nearly died out, but only nearly-enough to leave a variation of surviving populations, surviving cus of their odd traits. these would become the varied selection of "proto humans" (wiki it, human evolution isnt linear)
HOWEVER
the areas NOT affected, the areas that remained jungle, such as the congo, still has "the original chimp-like creatures", the chimps.
unevolved
cus they had no reason to evolve.
Evolution is always happening because mutation and reproduction are always happening. Whether an organism changes or not, differently adapted organisms will have differential reproductive success. This will lead to better adaptations.
NO.
"headslap" yourself, and read about definitions. you cant just go defining things at your own will.
random mutation is one thing. evolution is another.
so, you call my hair evolution? my nails? my eyecolor?
everything is evolution to you, because it is made of odd, random mutation?
you pick up a carrot in the store, and go "WOW EVOLUTION!!!"
no.
evolution is when new species are made, thats how we define it. and THAT is NOT a "must". new species are NOT always made. QUITE OFTEN, a species remains exactly what it is, you know WHY?
ill tell you why:
ODD MUTATIONS GET EATEN.
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NOW, evolution happens IN PART BECAUSE OF mutation. but the two concepts are NOT synonymous.
YES mutation happen all the time
NO evolution does NOT happen all the time.
i hope this cleared it up