@AtreiyaN7
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.
I'm someone who believed in and selected the Synthesis ending as the best option at the end of ME3, so my objection to this "the Remnant is actually humankind - surprise!" twist is not the result of me being some sort of narrow-minded Luddite. In fact, I'm so pro-science and pro-technology that it's not even funny (especially since I was a biology major once upon a time before somehow ending up as a permanently cranky book designer).
I absolutely believe that genetic engineering can direct future human evolution and can change humankind in significant ways rapidly as we go forward. I also don't have a problem with things like transhumanism, so you're not going to see me railing against the genetic modification of germlines to remove genetically inheritable diseases or altering our bodies with technology, etc.
My problem with the idea of the Remnant turning out to have been highly advanced humans is that it just plain stretches the limits of narrative and scientific credibility for me. For it to happen, I think you would be required to throw out the complete timeline of human evolution as we currently know it based on biology (molecular biology in particular) and the fossil record; it would mean ignoring hundreds of millions of years of evolution, or a billion years (maybe more) if you want to go back to the first eukaryotic cell(s) that gave rise to us.
Furthermore, the fact that we share so many genes with other lifeforms (including things like yeast cells) on Earth directly contradicts the idea that humans evolved separately somewhere else. I can buy into the concept of panspermia, but not if you're saying that these Remant humans sowed organic material on Earth that somehow ultimately resulted in a new highly advanced race of humans that is basically just like the Remnant humans through sheer luck. This is not believable to me.
Additionally, all the organisms on Earth (ignoring viruses because people still argue over whether or not they're even alive) pretty much share the exact same building blocks of life. We all have DNA based on some combination of A, G, T, C in base pairs, and humans and other lifeforms on Earth share a lot of the same genes and DNA, etc. This indicates that all life on Earth pretty much evolved from the same initial source.
The reason that I was able to accept Synthesis is that using nanotechnology or some sort of device that can rearrange atoms and create a new kind of merged biochemistry is at least partially believable based on what we might accomplish in the future (especially since we can already tinker with the genetic code AND because scientists have been working on creating synthetic DNA - not in the Synthesis ending sense of things, just to be clear). I don't think how they handled it in the ME3 ending was a good approach, but so be it - it's not like they were ever going to write a detailed explanation about the massive energy wave(s), etc.
I love Stargate SG-1, but I feel that it wasn't exactly hard sci-fi, except for the worm hole travel concept (worm holes are theoretically possible at least). ME isn't exactly Neal Stephenson-level hard sci-fi, but still, I'm expecting certain things to be believable - like how we evolved not suddenly being tossed out the window in favor of a surprise twist.
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