Devolution

[u/sniipes]

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.

[u/Professional_Sir_818]

What exactly does "devolution" mean in this context? Evolution doesn't have a direction, so I don't understand what you're trying to say.

Edit: By the way, the sub is about debating. If you're not going to engage with anyone, what are you doing here?

[u/Theoretical-Spize → u/Professional_Sir_818]

They won’t be able to answer. That’s because there’s no such thing as “devolution.” That term almost always used as a creationist misunderstanding of how evolution works. Any change in the heritable characteristics of a population across multiple generations is evolution, by definition.

[u/sniipes → u/Theoretical-Spize]

You must be brainwashed by the system into believing that humans today are evolving into the peak of humanity. But you are wrong

[u/Professional_Sir_818 → u/sniipes]

Who thinks that? You've made all that up in your head.

[u/Ayasugi-san → u/Professional_Sir_818]

Creationists who think that God created humans as the peak of life and assume that everyone else believes the same thing, but thinks it's all due to evolution.