Humans Still Evolving as Our Brains Shrink

Friday, November 13, 2009
BY Charles Q. Choi

I think this story reported on by Foxnews from LiveScience is full of fallacy, however it does have a cool looking picture of a brain which is what the article is about. The author is reporting that our brains are shrinking as we evolve as humans. The research is based on skull measurements which are getting smaller which suggest that our brains are shrinking and has been occurring for over 5,000 years. The research also suggests that our genes have been changing for the past 10,000 years during human evolution. John Hawks is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin and he says, "When it comes to recent evolutionary changes, we currently maybe have the least specific details with regard the brain, but we do know from archaeological data that pretty much everywhere we can measure — Europe, China, South Africa, Australia — that brains have shrunk about 150 cubic centimeters, off a mean of about 1,350. That's roughly 10 percent."


Any story on evolution is a fictional story, so it goes with out saying what I think of evolution. And this very emotional reaction I have to this story and any other story like it concerning evolution will never change. Forgive me if I do not seem to understand this story very well.
Now because there is other information in this story to be read, it is probably not fair to just stop at the word 'evolution' and judgmentally dismiss the research as thinking it is about the theory of evolution. It reports some things that are attributed to the development of human conditions, or changes that occur, if you will, in the human brain. The silliest thing in the article is the thought that “Evolution in humans is commonly thought to have essentially stopped in recent times.” You think? I should have developed gills by now so I could swim like a fish as much time as I spend in the water at the lake. Now this article suggests that the “Human race is still evolving, and even accelerating.” Here is what the article goes on to say, "As to why is it shrinking, perhaps in big societies, as opposed to hunter-gatherer lifestyles, we can rely on other people for more things, can specialize our behavior to a greater extent, and maybe not need our brains as much." Wow, and I thought the hunter gatherers were the simple types. Now I know it is the scientist who came up with this article’s research who is the simple type. I’m so glad that is cleared up.


The article goes on to babble about the body’s defenses and mutations against malaria. That is just our immune system working as installed with the original model that God guarantees. And the evolutionary change explained about lactose intolerance is crazy. Please, somebody explain it to me, this whole genome theory and what that has to do with the human brain shrinking. Our discovery of all the wonders of the human body and what it is capable of, is not evidence of evolution, but just a greater understanding of how wonderfully we were put together by an awesome Creator.