The problem is that from a purely scientific evolutionary point of >view, the human race is surely regressing, the masses of negative >evolutionary pressures are certainly pushing this way.
I doubt this in the strongest possible way. Australia was populated by the common criminals of England, the louts and scoundrels and thieves and murderers. (Perhaps some "political prisoners," but mostly common criminals.) And yet within a generation or two, Australia was thriving, and today nobody would argue that the descendants of convicts are dumb or backward. We aren't changing the genome. --Tim May
