[quote=“Dlightfull, post:25, topic:10141”]LOL mate, i guess all of us could be called sociopaths then. I may be one, i am not denying.
I don’t disregard others and i feel for them more than “normal” people do. I do have an almost lack of shame, true. Manipulative behavior, yeah oftentimes. No egocentricity, But yes to ability to lie to achieve goals.[/quote]
We all exhibit those things to some extend, but sociopaths/psychopaths are more extreme. However, let’s drop this topic completely, as you seem to accept the possiblity. Theres also the point that we’re no Psychologists, so…yeah.
Involution as in regression? That’s part of evolution too. Evolution simply states that living beings will change over time when their environment changes. That, obviously, can also mean that they change back into a state similar to their former state if the environment changes back to the way it was before. I could name several examples of this happening.
Also, Darwin doesn’t have a lot to do with the Theory of Evolution anymore. While he was the person who pretty much started it, the Theory itself was revised several times, improved even. The Theory is, of course, not perfect, no theory is, it’s just a try to explain how animals (and humans) evolved into their current form. There are still mistakes in it or room for improvement, but the theory itself is very, very solid. We have fossil evidence for it, Homologies, the DNA itself shows it as well, we have examples as well, basically all of biology and several other scientific areas such as archeology, chemistry and so on accept and support the theory of evolution. The only ‘proof’ that evolution is a lie comes from people like Creationists, i mentioned Kent Hovind earlier, John Pendleton or Carl Baugh would be also valid examples of such people. Evolution doesn’t fit in with their world view, so they try to discredit it, and they fail spectacularly at it.
The title of the book is “to have or to be” by the way, if anyone wants to look for it. The book itself speaks about how the Human changed since the industrial revolution, that they are more interested in materialistic goods and that they neglect the ‘to be’. He argues that we lost our ‘inner selves’ in favour of materialistic gain, and that materialistic goods become useless after death, because the life after death will only care for what the person ‘was inside’ in their lifetime.
The book is nice and dandy, there’s just one problem with it. While it’s true that it was written by a Psychologist, the book itself is about Philosophy. It talks about the humans having a soul which they neglect in favour of Wealth and property, that the industrialization made great promises, but in the end just improved the materialistic thinking of the masses, that it takes away from life itself because we don’t care about the ‘beings’ around us anymore.
Funny enough, I agree with parts of the book. People nowadays are too focused on material gain, they do neglect the relationships between people and so on, but that isn’t of interest for Science.
Science itself just tries to explain the world we live in. Nothing more, nothing less. It watches, it learns, it makes theories and tests them. If a theory is good, it survives and will be expanded, improved. It has no interest in philosphy, why we’re on earth, what happens after death, if we have a soul or if there is a god. It just tries to explain how the world works, and esoteric or religious things like a God usually don’t find a place in there, they are not necessary to explain things or can’t be proven. There were enough people who tried to find a ‘soul’ in people - some kind of energy or ghost which will leave the body when we die, but they never found anything. As it stands now in Science, we, as people, are just electric pulses in our brain, we are simply gone when we’re braindead, there is no afterlife, there was nothing before our lives either ; unless, of course, you can somehow proove that we have a soul, that it’s somehow measurable.
Recommendation: We stop talking about this now. I just realized what big wall of text im writing, and it has nothing to do with the topic, we’re basically spamming at this point 
Dlight, if you’re really interested in discussing matters further, send me a pm.
