@AtreiyaN7Doubt that anyone has to worry about that idea coming to pass. Considering how human evolution has actually worked over hundreds of millions of years (if you want to count the first mammals), I think it would be illogical for a "twist" like that to happen.
Throw in modern medicine, genetic engineering and technology, and evlution will speed up the same way technology and the population growth has speed up. Evolution no longer Controls human evolution outside of the poorest and most primitive areas on the Earth where no modern medicine can be hard.(some djungle tribe with no Contact with the outside World)
Modern medication has put evolution and Healthy selection through evolution out of existance for the most part. sick people with bad genes, alerrgies, asthma, weak immunesystems or hyperactive immunesystems that's trying to kill them, are keept alive by means of medication which allows them to reproduce and pass their genes and problems on to the next generation, allowing them to accumulate. Making ach sucessive generation sicker than the previous one, requiering even more Medical aid. Go back one hundred+ years and your genes would have determined wether or not you would live long enough to procreate and spread your genes. Now it's mostly about what medicines are on the market.
The counter could be genetic therapy and engineering to fix Medical problems and the selection, rather than trying to manage the ever more sickly population, you make sure the people who are born get their Medical problems fixed or selceted before birth so that the population is keept Healty.
The alternative woudl be to ban all medication and let evolution do it's work again to ensure a healthy population.
We have already turned out backs on the natural evolutionary processes that have keept our species and every other species on the planet Health for billions of years. If you throw evolution out the window, then you have to be prepared to deal with the consequences and replace it's funtion with something else.
Just giving each new generation more pills than the previous one wont be a working solution, it would just doom humanity to horrible fate worse than most can immagine.
Kind of like how the Asguards Went extinct in Star Gate SG1. But instead of it being cloning that broke their Health to a Point where they could no linger sustain themselves, it would be the deterioration of the genetics and accumulation of gentic defects that would do the job.
With evolution thrown out the window, there is no mechanic that will keep the human genom strong or healthy. I don't know if anytone has ever said this Before, but, I do think it will be a problem and we can see that several chronic diseases are increasing with each generation in parts of the World with good Medical care and wellfare. It's called wellfare disseases and several other things. There is a reason for their increase for certain, and it's not just diet or Lifestyle that's increasing the cancer, obesity, asthma, alergies, autoimmune dissesses, diabetes and more.
Once people start fixing genetic Health issues, what's to stop them from making other modifications aswell? Laws and rules maybe? Theological beliefs? Would Changes to the genom to enhance beyond just curing disseases and speeding up evolution or taking it into your own hands be wrong at all?
I'm sure there is a lot to be discussed and considered about these issues and soon we will have to make a stand on these issues. Because it's right around the corner. Is it the future or is it all a misstake? We have already taken steps that will be hard to undo, and telling everyone to abandon Medical knowledge and technology will be hard. To abandon genetic research and it's applications might be equaly hard, and one might not be feasible in the long run without the other, since it might turn out to be a necessity if all are to live.
There is plenty of those tough issues out there, so it would be easy to create moral, theological and scientific issues about a lot of different things, other than Synthetic VS organic.
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