Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

And another thing, our society at the minute actively prevents evolution, in fact you could almost say it's forcing de-volution.

For example, people with certain disorders kept alive, having children, ensuring the disorder remains in the gene pool.
The lazy and the stupid kept well fed with plenty time to reproduce, while the intelligent and hardworking have no time to.

Not that I am trying to promote a more barbaric society, but anyone who thinks that they are better than previous generations just because of a different belief system is talking balls!