On Jul 25, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: >> hkhenson wrote: >>>> And there are certain parts >>>> of the population doing their best to outbreed >> everyone else just to >>>> skew future demographics. So it's likely to >> be a hard crash, and not >>>> a very well controlled one at that. >>> This would worry me more except I think the age of >> genes is about >>> over. >> >> What do you mean by that? Do you mean that we'll be >> modifying >> ourselves rather than being subject to the random whims of >> mutation >> and selection in the next century (which is what I read) or >> did you >> mean something else? >> Charlie > > what parts of the population are "doing their best to outbreed > everyone else", and why? it seems to me that less developed > countries are the culprits, partly because children are a source of > labor... > i would hope that genetic modification is in the forecast (as long > as we keep a pool of "wild" humans). > jon
There's one particular domestic religious movement here in this country that is presently doing exactly that. It's probably not the first one most people might think. Google "quiverfull" for more info, the first half dozen hits will tell you a lot. "You wanna tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?" -- Toby Ziegler _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
