{"id":130,"date":"2009-02-09T20:46:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T00:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.150.141.22\/wordpress\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-02-09T20:46:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T00:46:30","slug":"on-the-origin-of-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"On the origin of Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost darwin&#8217;s 200th birthday, and reading articles about his fame made me realize something.<\/p>\n<p>In the previously mentioned book Ishmael, it&#8217;s pretty obvious that man is not the culmination of evolution. It&#8217;s the point at which evolution created a being that is self aware can make computers and read bogs.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, the humans will kill themselves off and nature can go back to evolving the way it did before we showed up.<\/p>\n<p>So if you think about it, there&#8217;s a long highway on which time goes by and things evolve, and we, the humans, are a pitstop. We mess things up, we kill other species and don&#8217;t evolve naturally (&#8220;Society killed darwin.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>So after we&#8217;re done with our lunch at the pitstop, the humans will go away, and the trip on the highway will continue again leading to something even greater than ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>For the next generation of intelligent beings will be able to look back and see that we were here and took ourselves out of the gene pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost darwin&#8217;s 200th birthday, and reading articles about his fame made me realize something. In the previously mentioned book Ishmael, it&#8217;s pretty obvious that man is not the culmination of evolution. It&#8217;s the point at which evolution created a being that is self aware can make computers and read bogs. At some point, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}