| If Darwin were right, Part X: The Evolution of Human Parasites | 5 comments |
 2 Jul 2009 @ 14:59, by Max SandorThere was a time when a parasite was content to be parasite. It would grow, live, and benefit from the lifeforce of his host. It didn't yet control the choices of the host. Survival was easy for both, it seemed. If it wasn't for fighting off the other, cmpeting, parasites, life was good. Gd knows what happened. Maybe Darwin was right: the parasite that adapted itself the best way prevailed. It mutated to survive better than the other parasites around. Or was it that the host didn't evolve quickly enough? Back in those days the host didn't do quite yet what the parasites told him to do. It wouldn't necessarily eat what the parasites wanted him to it. He wouldn't think the way the parasites told him to think. And he would act to seek out his own way instead of trying to please the parasites. There was no danger yet that the host would perish. Ok, Ok sometimes a host would die, eaten up. But then, there were still other hosts available. The remaining parasites would adapt themselves to a different type of host or culture - Darwin was right after all! Or perhaps, the Theists were right: Gxd didn't like the type of guy he created, so he sent them parasites clever e nough to suck 'em to death. But then the parasites are totally convinced that God is on their side, and only theirs, as they claim boldly. And that their host would be a wild beast that wouldn't deserve to live anyway. Isn't it so that the parasites nowadays think being the master and their hosts being slaves? And aren't the hosts stupid enough to not recognize its own parasites, choking 'em to death? As long as the host survives, all is fine for the parasites. If the host succumbs but there is still another another host around, there is hope in dark times. In the end, with no more hosts around the way of the parasite comes a sticky end, if not an abrupt halt. Whether Darwinism evolution has us led to a dead end, or whether Gxd made some bad choices, both parasite and host will die together. And, after the show is over, who is to say who would have been the host and who was the parasite? |