Have you heard of the little girl with 4 arms and 4 legs?
Now I have only just read this little girls story and it is only now that I understand what led to her being born the way she is/was.
Prior to today I had only heard that a little girl had been born with double sets of limbs and she was being operated on to remove the extra limbs. Hearing this started me thinking.
Is it possible that medical science with all it’s advancements could actually hinder human evolution?
Let me explain. We now have the knowhow to transplant organs, suck out excess fat and fix deformaties such as cleft palate and other facial and bodily disfigurements.
But what if in doing so we are actually stopping the evolutionary process? We are supposed to have descended from apes. Do you really think we have reached our peak? What if we are meant to continue to evolve and to become something more?
It really makes you think.
Tags: evolution, medical science, transplant
1, December 2007 at 4:32 am |
It should have been mentioned that the little girl would not have made it into adulthood in the condition in which she was born. “Evolution” made a bad “advancement” if “evolution” was the cause.
1, December 2007 at 6:28 am |
I get your point but as I stated it was some time before I got to read the full story and rather than Evolution it was a case of one very early stages twin dying and the other absorbing the remains resulting in the little girl being born with double limbs as well as several organs being doubled up on.
It is truly amazing that she has any chance of a normal life at all and that was my point. With the incredible ability’s our surgeons now have we can expect someone in a serious situation like hers to have a chance at a normal life.
The question is “Is there a line to be drawn here?” and I guess thats a question that hospital ethics committees debate time and again with new technologies being developed and new procedures being tried.
I’d be interested to hear anyone else’s thoughts on the issue.