Natural Selection For Human example essay topic

It is fairly an infraction for believing that we (the Homo Homo sapiens) are far beyond those creatures, residing on mother earth, our Gaia, and that our moral stance on anything and everything is just and fair. Most scholars may choose to side with this argument that states: "Animals have rights as do human beings", but I shall take a different approach to this dilemma, one much more critical and scientific. Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection clearly negates the "animal rights" argument presented by Francis Fukuyama's Our Post human Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. "In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment (Charles Darwin (1809-1882), The Origin of Species 1859)". It is clearly implausible to conclude that our use of animals in biological experiments is immoral and inhumane; therefore we must cease our research in such "immoral" stem cell, or gene manipulation experiments, but if natural selection is applied to mankind's current ethical roadblock of genetic research as a cause of ecological imbalance and ethical dilemma we have a clear reason for so.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science (Charles Darwin (1809-1882) )". It is fairly clear that "humans" were naturally selected to evolve to a level beyond mere animal or plant existence to a state of engineering. Hence, Humans have the right to engineer for our own medical and special well-being, for we developed the skills to do so through evolution and natural selection. Some may argue "free will" over "fate", but I shall argue that it is fate that will lead us into the "dark art" of genetic and biological engineering, and our "free will" that will veer us towards ecological resurgence or ecological collapse. "The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it (Thucydides)".

Gregory Stock the author of Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future, who opened chapter 8 with the quote above, would ideally agree for the development of genetic and biological engineering, but his deceptive opening does not adhere to Thucydides' vision. If we were to adhere to these ideals, the technology developed by testing upon these animals would help revolutionize medicines and treatments for species other than those human, and may result in natural food grown in a lab-unlike the genetically enhanced foods consumed currently. Instead of having to impose pig genes into tomatoes to increase its preservation period, we may impose technologies that result in organic and non-altered foods grown atom by atom-through our knowledge of organic chemistry, quanta, and genetics. We may be able to include such technology in replenishing the rainforests after severe corporate logging and reestablishing populations of endangered species, hence natural selection for human technological evolution in the field of genetics may have positive effects if employed by mature and moral scientists. "God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be... Let the sky and God be our eyes and Eternity our measurement (Marcus Garvey)".

Garvey touches on the positive aspect of humans as the naturally selected "genius" that may follow in the steps of Satan or in the eyes of God choose the righteous path. Such high levels of thinking and tinkering should not be practiced by those who do not have proper ethical and moral judgments. Science shall not become the tool of the dark art of war, but the obelisk of light where the blind can now see and those who suffered from fate and war will no longer. We were naturally selected to evolve in the mental sense, hence we shall not devolve into our primal and destructive self with our mental evolution into science, but we shall employ our gift for the betterment of Gaia, our mother earth.