Evolution Doesn't Believe In Creationists

It goes without saying that Creationists are strongly opposed to the 'theory of evolution'. But can you blame them? When it comes to how evolution feels about creationists (or rather the "type" of people that would believe in such nonsense) the feeling appears to be mutual. Evolution does not appear to support creationism, in that the direction the human species is going is one which is quite a hostile environment for such ideas. Let me elaborate, statistics show that the smarter a person is, the lower their religiosity tends to be (so many studies have been done, and the results are wide spread on the internet, Google it). This is of course coupled with the evolutionary trend of humans increasing in intellectual capacity over time. While the 'theory of evolution' is scientific, it is also a meme which supports the 'atheistic memeplex'. But just to make it clear, I'm not claiming here that they are mutually exclusive, but they do fit well together. So let's simplify it, on one side we have the 'evolution meme' and 'biological evolution' (the evolution of humans is occurring all the time) at odds with the 'creationist meme' and 'biological stagnation'.

Perhaps this should be better explained, the higher a person's intelligence goes, the lower their religiosity. So "smarter" humans will tend to be less religious. This means that evolution itself is slowly phasing out less intelligent humans, ones that would believe in ideas like creationism. But 'biological evolution' is not the only force at work here, the 'evolution meme' alone is very harmful to the creationist meme. It is fairly simple to understand, and is much more logical then a talking snake. This meme allows the more intellectual to thrive that much more, prior to it, creationism was the only show-in-town, and nearly all believed it. Is it possible that the 'evolution meme' (or the skeptical, rational, scientific based one) can help speed up the process of phasing out creationists? If intellectual abilities are used more and more, evolution would probably favor those with more capable minds -- over a substantial period of time it would be very noticeable. Perhaps as noticeable as the typical human of today vs. one that lived a few 100,000 years ago, maybe even more-so, depending on the time-frame we are dealing with.

The statements being made here are reflecting the trend shown in the evolution of the human species, along with the correlation between higher intelligence and higher skepticism. The only way to undue such a trend would be to eliminate all people with an IQ above a certain point, burn a lot of books, and most importantly eliminate access to the internet. While such a thing seems all but impossible, religion has done this sort of thing before. I'm sure the Greeks would have felt similar if confronted with the idea of the coming 'Dark Ages'.

As it was said by Richard Lederer "There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.". I think this outcome is some-what unlikely, unless some apocalyptic event destroys our infrastructure, especially the access to electricity. This could give religions like Christianity the power they need from the population (people tend to become more sheepish when confronted with fear and hardship) to better pursue their agenda. Which would be as it has done before, to protect itself by snuffing out anything perceived as a threat (e.g., science and rival belief systems/faiths).

While humans would rebound relatively quickly (a great destruction of infrastructure could send us back at-least 200-500 years in technology and knowledge), an environment like that of the 'Dark Ages' is more favorable for a sheep then a skeptic. Evolution might favor a relatively lower intelligence then what is seen today (might be why some people wish things would return to the 'old ways', think about it). The skeptical whom spoke out against the church were oftentimes killed for heresy (killing off the intelligentsia of a population supports the religion-memeplex). An event like this would cause knowledge to be lost and a period of near stagnation (faith kills curiosity, the desire to understand the world). Eventually we would pass out of the next 'Dark Age' and repeat the golden-ages that were experienced in the past. Hopefully this will never happen, however we must understand and learn from the past, we may be destined to repeat it.