Cultural Evolution

CULTURAL EVOLUTION*

Richard Allen Hart, PhD    6 Dec 1930—(30  Feb  2024)

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CAUTION If you have not had the opportunity to learn to hold more than one view of a situation in mind without the need to destroy all others, you may erroneously assume to be offended or at risk. PLEASE first read “This I Believe-Classical”. Ideas and beliefs can exist above the level of natural brute force behavior and biological evolution. Your original beliefs can be enriched by a changing lifetime environment. Different beliefs can thrive (coexist) when they do no harm.

Learning how evolution works is the foundation for an endless need for medical intervention to correct its errors. Sequence the genes in the placenta. Scan for errors. Release a correct copy into a Biobot (How Nano Robots Will Change Medicine Forever | NanoSyrinx, 33 min, 2023) to repair the defective gene. Or sickle cell anemia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHWD8RSw4As) 13 min, 2024, for between two and three million dollars and 1 year of frequent readily available hospital stays.

                     

There is a fortune to be made in servicing the genetically ill and in providing the needed tools.(Nanotechnology & NanoMedicine | Andrew Hessel | Exponential Medicine 2015, 25 min, 2015).  The part that God has in directed evolution must now be examined in this newly found world of nanobiology. The $3.1 billion All of Us (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06957-x) project has identified 1 billion human genetic variants in 250,000 participants of which 4 million may be tied to disease risks tied to 117 diseases (2024).

 

Nanobiology clips: The human cell, 5 min. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCgro6BV8U) motor protein, loop. (https://tenor.com/view/kinesin-walking-protein-microtubule-hydrolysis-gif-18575672) molecular machines. 6 min, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tYrnv_o6A) that can react with the speed of light and rotate as fast as a jet engine. One 20-year human generation equals 350,000 microbe generations! This is in contrast to macroevolution that is too slow to be observed directly. Wikipedia microevolution

  

The Nobel Prize was awarded to Frances Arnold in 2018 for inventing directed evolution in the 1980s. Breeding Better Enzymes (https://www.americanscientist.org/article/breeding-better-enzymes) "We often find that it's hard to improve enzymes for natural functions or natural environments. But it's really easy to improve them to do something different from what nature is asking them to do.” God has done well in matching gene and environment. It is a natural process. The process needs no miracle. Its does require understanding.

 

“I capitalized on that by finding that beneficial mutations would lie in areas of the protein that people thought were not important. That cemented this idea in people's minds that evolution was a good teacher.” Randomizing DNA and selecting desired traits is still faster than theory. [Revolutionary DNA nanotechnology speeds up development of vaccines by more than one million times]

DNA is frequently damaged but high concentrations of DNA polymerases (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKe3UgH1AKg) keep 3 billion human nucleotides repaired; less than one error in a billion nucleotides. This applies to gene editing errors too. The unbelievable story told by the motor proteins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RUHJhskW00) promote science and medicine as well as anti-science and conspiracy theories. The origin of life is still scientifically unknown.

 

The following links to this page are divided into "factual" and "related" to emphasize the reason they were selected, not that they are 100% either. Both can generate authoritative power. Each is valid in its own area. When science or religion become political they risk loosing their validity (COVID-19).  Each issue needs to be decided on its own merits. Abortion, in vitro fertilization, and gene editing all have related biological, medical, and cultural factors in this 2024 election.  

We know the Old Testament. A correcting, more powerful, story is told in the New Testament.  I believe the time has come for a newer more complete story that includes God's secret nano world (national geographic nanotechnology.)  And size (https://www.nano.gov/nanotech-101/what/nano-size)

It does not limit the power of the concept of god or the way god works. It allows living in peace in a mature religious/spiritual (R/S) (https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/8/725) visualized by science. 

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  Epilogue (at end of Related Topics)

Biological evolution follows two basic rules: (8 Mar 2024)
1. A space (environment) niche.
2. A self reproducing entity (with variation, errors). 

Cultural evolution adds two more:
3. Spiritual-and-religious (S/R). Unverifiable individual beliefs.
4. Science. Verifiable and verified group beliefs.

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