Evolution?? I prefer to believe there’s an intelligent designer behind it all: someone pulling levers and pushing foot pedals, and out of fog I stride, my .270 slung on my shoulder, and a pack load of meat on my back: the “evolved” modern man…

When did adaptation become evolution? I think before any news reporter writes an article on evolution they should start it by defining "their" definition of evolution.

P.S. I just took a sip of Diet Coke with my left hand instead of the usual right. Isn't evolution great?

As a lifetime hunter and fisherman, I consider myself somewhat a dinosaur. It will all be over in a few more generations, except for the few who can survive outside what our ever-growing "government" will select for. Yeah, that's it. It has nothing to do with natural selection. The Political and economic forces that steer our government will allow the existence of subservient and mildly-intelligent beings who have never had a creative thought. The rights of Amerikans are slowly but surely being eroded. Production is going "overseas", and the people are being farmed like cabbages. As the Velvet Mafia begins to emerge, and God is banned almost everywhere, and Atheism was totally sold in the 1960's, it is clear that Amerikans now want their Golden Calf more than ever. At work and when you support the service industries (all that's left), people are going to steal from you. It Is The Game. We are entering an era of chronic large-scale unemployment, and "the Government" is lying about that. Seniors are being abandoned by the government, and they are going to become burdens on their families. What is being bred here is a culture of scared and inept "people" who are best capable of serving those who have grabbed control of the financial/economic empire. Such people are not deserving of any rights. But you asked. It has been said that if Christ ever comes back, the CIA will have him dead in a week. And that's the light version. Only a few intellects here will get this far.

Evolution may have been superceeded by cultural factors but Devolution seems to be obvious as the stupidities of humankind compound on each other.
You may be smart, you may be strong, success is not guaranteed. However if you are profoundly stupid, survival is assured! Society has created dozens of wonderful opportunities and programs to benefit idiots, mandated even, so no one would think to interfere with funding. Fire departments may close, policemen laid off and roads go unrepaired but whatever happens to the rest of us, take comfort that the coddling of the stupid will continue.

is it possible they started with the premise that the artists rendition of aliens from outerspace, look like famine victims of third world countries?

I agree with Bella that humans are now "DEvolving" rather than Evolving. Strength, speed, agility, wits and other survival abilities are no longer necessary for survival. Inept and stupid people are not just allowed to survive, but they're also encouraged to breed.

There's far too much possible truth in that movie for it to be really funny.

There will be no future human when the ROBOTS TAKE OVER! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! DEAR GOD THEY'RE UNSTOPPABLE!!!!! AAAAAGGHHH!!!

The future is on its way.
http://news.discovery.com/tech/tap-your-skin-to-dial-your-phone.html

This is reminding me of a science fiction story I first read in high school. As years (decades) went by, it actually started to worry me about how aspects of the story were coming true all the time. Eventually even facts were backing it up.

The story (can't remember the author, it was in an anthology) was called "The Marching Morons".

It's premise? That as society advanced, the more intelligent people had fewer children and put more effort into raising them correctly, while the less 'dedicated' had hordes of children raised in their image. As time passed, more and more work to protect everyone was being handled by fewer and fewer doctors, engineers, etc. Eventually, there were so few that they formed a world-wide organization just to keep people safe and alive. A single person in this group might be a doctor, air-traffic controller, auto engineer, and so forth.

Of course, then I read and hear reports about professionals having fewer children, and later in life, while welfare mothers have six or more children raised in an environment with little leadership, and little hope to lay a proper foundation for skills.

I often consider this 'fiction' to be more of a harbinger of the future than many 'facts'.