Human evolution? This exciting theme involves two main points: the origin of man and his further development. Both that and another cause controversy, lasting more than one hundred years. Darwinism opposes religious interpretations.
Precisely Darwinism. Because Darwin himself didn’t claim that man was descended from a monkey. He only cautiously assumed that humans and apes might have a common ancestor. His caution is understandable, since Darwin himself was a believer, especially towards the end of his life. Christian. As for natural selection according to Darwin, then even the Pope does not argue with Darwin. Be that as it may, until now, at first glance, opposite points of view persist - man was created or man “appeared”.
Just like our World (Universe) itself, it was created or appeared spontaneously out of virtually nothing. However, in recent years, there has been a certain compromise. It is associated with the emergence of the so-called. The Anthropic Principle of the Origin of the Universe, the essence of which is that the Universe was created in such a way that an observer, in particular a man, could appear in it. The authors are a number of eminent scientists, mainly physicists, including Nobel Prize winners. There is also a tendency, if not a revision of a number of so-called. religious dogmas, then, at extreme measures, a more attentive attitude towards them on the part of "science".
What else did Einstein talk about - science without religion suffers from lameness, and religion without science suffers from blindness. Well, for especially deeply religious atheists, it is advisable to consider many religious ideas as grandiose allegories. For example, the story with the Garden of Eden, as a symbol of the Golden Age of man. Indeed, it was established that there was a period in the so-called. "Stone Age", when there were no wars for almost 2000 years. Today, cities without walls, with two or three storey buildings and without traces of destruction are being excavated in the Middle East and South America. Moreover, there was art, and construction and elements of production, fabrics, tools made of stone, and more. dr.
There were the beginnings of monetary relations. And then - as if "someone" pressed the button. The whole further history of "man", taking into account a considerable part of prehistoric times, is almost continuous wars with small and meek "gaps" in the form of art and science, which, however, was used to create more and more deadly weapons. This continues to this day. The only difference from the "historical" times is that modern technologies allow killing not thousands, tens and hundreds of thousands, as recently, but millions and tens of millions. As demonstrated by the tragedy of Hiroshima and the growing stocks of nuclear weapons in the world. So does a person develop?
It seems that "man" does not develop on planet Earth. What he was, so he remained. And what about technological progress? This is just the accumulation and implementation of information. In terms of content, these are only "decorations" and "equipment". Not affecting the "essence" of a person. It is well known that if you now raise a baby from some tribe far from civilization living on the Amazon River, in civilized conditions, then the difference between him and those born in the so-called. the civilized world will not be. There is reason to believe that if in some fantastic way it would be possible to "get" a Cro-Magnon baby, or even a Neanderthal, then there would be no significant differences with modern people if they were raised in our time. The essence of man doesn't seem to really change.
Or maybe it also became "worse". If you remember the bloody wars of the 20th century. And even now, the statistics of aggressive manifestations, crime, almost endless, local wars do not inspire optimism for the future. And then there's the negative environmental consequences of "technological progress" are growing. In fact, we are talking about the destruction of nature - humanity's own home. Calculations show that in order to achieve an average standard of living for the entire population of the earth, the resources of several Earth-type planets are needed.
How can we not recall the classic "conflict" of God and the Devil on planet Earth? Perhaps, indeed, "once" the humanity was transferred from the spiritual path of development, intended for him by God, to the path of technical progress, invented for him by the devil. Allegory? Who knows, who knows … The video plot is devoted to some aspects of these problems.
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