Evolution happens. Nothing can stop it. Modern technology simply changes the selection forces that act upon our genetic variations.

True, human beings have become physically weaker compared to our ancesters (primitive humans are much stronger than us, and so are the modern great apes). I just recently read that a chimpanzee (our closest modern relative) typically has five times the upper body strength than an adult human. But our intellect has evolved to a level that far surpasses even the most intelligent animal.

We just have different forces (I guess you can call it "artificial" selection instead of natural selection) that mold the way we evolve. Instead of having infectious diseases that kill us, we have heart disease, obesity, and cancer. Evolution happens constantly simply we still die and some of us die before we reproduce.

It'll be difficult to foresee what the product of this different sort of natural selection will be, but I guess none of us really have to worry about that. We won't be around to see the result.

The human mind cannot grasp the time frames it takes for "normal" evolution to take place, hence the concept that we came from apes is still not completely accepted.

large numbers like that throw normal people off, its like the old saying i heard in school. if you asked an ant how long the tree was there "i dunno, has always been, since before my parents and my parents parents,etc,etc"

i also think that "dumb" is a sort of evolutionary thing. people may be smarter in a sense, but dumber than our forbearer's in vital areas, such as basic survival.

anywho's none of us could possible live long enough to witness even one confirmed "evolutionary" event so.. even looking back in recored history ( a very small time period, but some would think its long) there has not been one confirmed event.

While mutation is possibly the biggest factor in evolution, our technological evolution can benefit us in the same way. For example, our advances in stem cell research can possibly remedy most genetic-level problems. (Mutations.) Another example is our ever-extending lifespan due to medicine.

Though.. survival of the fittest and death to the weak is also a factor. The constant procreation of HIV-positive people is an exmaple of how evolution has failed. If we didn't treat this condition, many would die.. along with the virus, eventually. (Maybe?)

A dumbass drunk driver runs down and kills 3 people that are both mentally and physically above average. Is this survival of the fittest?

The evolution that applied to almost every other organism in the past does not apply to us. Ours is an entirely new kind - that which relies on the contribution of every human being.. not just the select few that might have developed webbed feet or hooked beaks. Eventually, we will completely detroy ourselves with our own science.. THEN darwin's evolution will have shown its face again.

What i meant is that we dont have the nature factor killing us off. We have our own species doing that. ..and BTW,

CREATIONISM CREATIONISM CREATIONISM!! (come on, someone had to say it)

We have evolved past the level where physical traits need be our primary concern. Stop trying to deny it. Whether we would survive in a primal society or whether "evolution" is continuing in its most base form should hardly be our concern. Like I say, we no longer need to wait millions of years to become immune to diseases when we can simply invent cures for them - that is human evolution.