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Reading Darwin makes my head hurt. It is beginning to explode with thoughts and ideas that aren’t at all normal for me. While finishing the reading for last week I found myself writing down some pretty profound thoughts. Darwin made some very interesting observations of the variations found in pigeons, beetles and other species and explained them as factors of use vs. no-use or advantages vs. disadvantages. If I change the creature name from those listed in his writings to humans, I then have to ask: Are humans just poorly cross-bred creatures, extreme anomalies or monsters of some kind? Have humans because of their ability to rationalize and think mucked about with evolution and natural selection by way of medical miracles, technological tampering or what we call advancements or perhaps through wars to the degree that we have altered our own existence? Who holds the blueprint for human design?

Darwin wrote “Natural selection acts solely through the preservation of variations in some way advantageous…it follows that as each selected and favoured form increases in numbers, so will the less favoured forms decrease and become rare…Rarity…is the precursor to extinction” (pg. 162).  If that is in fact true then how does one explain the explosion of criminality in the world? There are no advantages found in the biological processes of the criminal mind. Why can’t societal ills become rare and extinct?