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If evolution is to be seen as some acentive path leading to a stronger and better adapted creature, and if that better adapted creature eventually becomes so stong and so capable that it takes control of its environment rather than being controled by its environment, then evolution as a force of nature will cease.
However, that is not the end of evolution, its just then end of evolution based upon environmental adaptability. Once a creature has the tools to change its world such that it is protected from nature, it's population should grow exponenaly (just like we are experencing). Though that population boom is dangerous, the collective inteligence also rises with the populace, leading the way to a creature which can think through its long term problems (like were starting to do now) and have enough collective research and talk to lead to solutions.
The big question right now, as we stand on this cusp, is will we figure out those solutions before, as Easytiger pointed out, we blow eachother away?
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"Max i dont really love it [orthodox science], i just lust for it while i stalk it hoping its real boyfriend, Military Science, doesn't see me" -Proxy
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