Proves Evolution and supports Devolution

This video is very enlightening and does a wonderful job of explaining evolution to people who don't know all of the details of evolution.  In it, the video explains how evolution supports the characteristics of how the reproduce.  And because of this, we are devolving, as the current most favorable traits would be our appearence.  It is quite easy to see in highschool even, all of the hot cheerleaders and football players  get together and may or may not have sex.  While the "nerds" who pay attention in school and work harder to make something of themselves, showing brains and good work ethic are left alone.  But its true in the adult world too that women want a "stud" and guys want a girl with a nice body, and neither having much concern for the others intelligence.  Thus the intelligent are becoming extinct.

Korn's Music Video "Evolution"

This uncredible music video by the rock band KORN has backgrouds and lyrics that support the theory that humanity is reverting to a more primitive form.

In the video it first shows a line graph representing the average IQ of American citizens’ which is increasing until about 1955 when it took a sudden clear downturn.  As the line rapidly goes in the downward direction, it passes by some of the causes such as families with low IQ’s reproducing twice as much as families with relatively high IQ’s.  Also that because of the gun, man has no natural predators, now we have no fear for our lives and our natural instincts which brought us this far are abandoning us.  Our instinct is key to survival, it helps our decision-making skills and provides a sense of morality even at birth, and without it we are doomed to be foolish and corrupt takers instead of givers.  Then the graph passes by words on the board stating “Causing… Human population to increase… And average IQ to decrease”.  Then it displays the human brain decreasing in size and capacity.  After the graph visual ended, several videos were displayed, two at a time to explain the unremarkable similarity between human behavior and the behavior of monkeys.  This arouses the question, “Have we really come so far or are we the most foolish animal to think we are superior to other species?”  The video skips to several people in a court room, watching a man and a monkey as they’re tossed a ball.  The man failed to catch the ball and the monkey succeeded.  The video as a last sign of hope showed a point on the other side when a woman took the floor and offered the monkey either a banana or a wad of money.  The monkey of course took the banana, but though many will interpret this to be a counterpoint to devolution, this could be used to prove devolution more so than disprove.  They posed a situation in an attempt to disprove devolution but when the monkey chose the banana which is instant sustenance and self gratification over the foolish concept of money which has no definite value, he was most definitely displaying a sign of natural instinct which we lack and have lost sight of.

Thesis

Devolution is the idea that modern society and its inhabitance are reverting to a more primitive form.  The concept of devolution is a new idea and not commonly embraced, but there is sound evidence as well as credible supporters.  Humanity is devolving and we must seek solutions.

Evolution

The concept of evolution began with Charles Darwin.  It suggests that as life for a species becomes more difficult they must adapt to the new environment in order to become better suited for survival.  He observed the differences in the diverse finches of the Galapagos islands and saw that each had it's own type of beak that allowed it to gather its own food.  Some had large beaks for cracking open nuts, others small to fit into holes in trees and get bugs.  Darwin sugusted that these birds had moved to the island and many died because the couldn't adapt but some had nessessary mutations in their offsprings, these would survive while the others died.  This held some influence for the phrase, "Survival of the fittest."  But it was not just these birds that went through this process of evolution all life has evolved stemming back to bacteria in the ocean at this planet's begginning.