Evolution – a defective process

I am a firm believer of the theory of evolution. The theory is easily perceptible as we look at life-forms around, and off course on Discovery and Natgeo, and there is enough evidence to prove its correctness. Even the ancient Greek philosophers such as Anaximander postulated the development of life from non-life and the descent of man from animal.

This post is not about agreeing that our ancestors were primates who in turn could have had descended from fishes, snakes or perhaps even mango trees. Here I want to bring forward the defectiveness of the process of evolution.

When fishes wanted to fly evolution gave them wings, when the birds were tired of flying it gave them an extra pair of feet and a strong vertebrae [This is if we follow the ‘Birds Came First’ hypothesis]. More importantly evolution made humans smart enough to invent Coke to quench their thirst. But did human get a raw-deal overall?

What does man need to survive? I would say ‘food’ and ‘love’, with the order not being important.

Although evolution has empowered humans to do both, chew meat and gulp-down vegetables, the effect of this is disastrous. No matter what you eat, the extra flesh is added at only one location - ‘The Tummy’. This totally blemishes the physique and compels us to check our naked bellies in the mirror every night.

Talking about ‘love’, evolution should have figured out that men prefer women with cheerful faces, thin-long figures, narrow waists, soft hair, and flawless-skin allover; and made them accordingly. Even Chetan Bhagat has mentioned alike in his novel ‘The 3 Mistakes of My Life’. Good! Someone smart and famous has already been thinking along these lines.

Evolution has disappointed on both fronts. The more we work and the more we earn, the more restaurants we see serving delicious, fat-filled foods and the less time we have to tug-in the bulging bellies. Couldn’t evolution gift us a couple of sophisticated organs to digest the extra fat?

The more we want love the less qualified and fewer women we find. Imagine a class full of pretty faces or public places with only energetic, cheerful ladies. Wouldn’t that be a sight?

With evolution not serving humans adequately its time we take control in our own hands. Long live ‘Genetic Engineering’.