(December 12, 2016 at 8:27 am)Little Rik Wrote: The primitive people did not have what we got today and we do not have what they had so at the end
there is no progress.
You're an idiot.
Primitive people had shorter lives marked by susceptibility to diseases, starvation, and exposure among other things. Infant mortality was high, many mothers died in childbirth, and many children died before reaching the age of five. Over time, technology has helped ease these problems and in some cases drastically reduce them. The places on Earth where these problems are still significant are those areas that lack those technologies or reject them. That's right, we can see the difference that technology makes by comparing those people who take advantage of it to those who do not. The former live longer, healthier, happier lives. The latter wipe their asses with clumps of grass and wonder why their meals taste like leafy shit.
So yeah, primitive people didn't enjoy what we have today (better health, longer lives, happier lives) and we don't have what they had (a short, shitty, painful existence). You think that's a wash. That's because you're an idiot.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould