A thought on humans and evolution

From Summa Bergania

by David Bergan

written sometime before 1999

How can one believe in evolution when its greatest product shows no signs of adapting. Because humans are incapable of changing themselves to conquer frontiers, we instead transform the frontier. We could not adapt to the violent ocean, so we build boats. We could not adapt to the cold, so we build warm houses to live in those areas and warm cars to travel past. And when a car cannot climb a mountain, we drill a tunnel to go through; we plow snow to get to work.

Our insatiable craving for adventure, pseudonymed as progress, entices us to uninhabitable environments which we explore in tiny vessels conditioned to standard air pressure and room temperature.

Were evolution true, it should be expected that such vessels would not be necessary since as its supreme invention we ought to be able to adapt quickly to any environment.

But we don't have the power to change ourselves to fit new environments, to adapt to something that isn't at standard temperature and pressure. Instead we adapt the environment.