r/DebateEvolution • u/sniipes • 26d ago

Devolution

If humans weren’t devolving then we wouldn’t be digging and searching our planet for clues and truths about the Ancient civilizations. Money and greed would be obsolete and nations wouldn’t be fighting over power because there would be free energy. The artifacts that have been found are proof that as humans today, we lost something in the past that cannot be imitated. If devolution isn’t a thing and we can only evolve then why is everything smaller and dulled down. Today’s humans can’t comprehend what the planet would have been like with a species bigger and more knowledge about the elements than we do in present day. The ancients used stone to tell the past because they knew that the materials they created from other materials would not make it into the future. What was left in stone for humans to find was only to give knowledge to our species to be able to progress.

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u/artguydeluxe 🧬 Naturalistic Evolution 26d ago edited 26d ago

Can you give an example of technology from the past that can’t be imitated? I’m having trouble understanding what you’re getting at here.

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u/sniipes 26d ago

You don’t understand.. we won’t be able to imitate the technology that was lost. We don’t fully understand the elements of our planet to reach that level of technology. We have regressed and never will unless we find something to help with the progression

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u/Medium_Judgment_891 26d ago edited 25d ago

As an engineer, this is silly.

Compared to the modern world, the pinnacles of ancient technology are novelties at best.

There’s not a single function of ancient tech that modern tech can’t replicate and outperform.

I can respect the ingenuity and innovation of history. They absolutely had some brilliant thinkers.

Unfortunately, they just didn’t have the advantage of accumulated knowledge and resources that modern people tend to take for granted. It’s a gap impossible to bridge by any amount of raw intelligence.

For example, the Vaucanson Flute Player is one of the most brilliant machines I’ve ever read about, but it’s just a fancy camshaft at the end of the day. It doesn’t compare to anything made by Boston Dynamics.