[thesheriff443]

The human race.
what breakthrough's do you think will be possible in the next 50 years?
do you think like me that in some areas we have slowed down, come to a stop or even going backwards! like in medicine, where the drugs can no longer beat the disease.
what do you think?

Medicine hasn't slowed down, but evolution means that things we used to be able to defeat, have now adapted to their environment, and are becoming resistant, but the work is carrying on to get back on top of it.

I think we will have discovered the process from which non-life originally became life (abiogenesis).

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Jesus.H.Christ

Medicine hasn't slowed down, but evolution means that things we used to be able to defeat, have now adapted to their environment, and are becoming resistant, but the work is carrying on to get back on top of it.

I think we will have discovered the process from which non-life originally became life (abiogenesis).

I think medicine has slowed in as much as the progress to develop new drugs to deal with new strains of diseases and infections

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

I think medicine has slowed in as much as the progress to develop new drugs to deal with new strains of diseases and infections

When you look at how things like HIV/AIDS drugs have developed, then I don't think you can say our progress has slowed.

However, we are our only worst enemies at times, with things like the anti-vaccination brigade, who have kept many diseases around and have relied on herd protection to remain relatively safe from them. We also don't finish many of our courses of antibiotics, which has aided these strains to grow immunity.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Jesus.H.Christ

When you look at how things like HIV/AIDS drugs have developed, then I don't think you can say our progress has slowed.

However, we are our only worst enemies at times, with things like the anti-vaccination brigade, who have kept many diseases around and have relied on herd protection to remain relatively safe from them. We also don't finish many of our courses of antibiotics, which has aided these strains to grow immunity.

the first case of aids was recorded in America in 1980 so we have been fighting that disease for 33 years, but the first aids recorded death was is in 1959.

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

the first case of aids was recorded in America in 1980 so we have fighting that disease for 33 years, but the first aids recorded death was is in 1959.

OK. I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make there, or how that counteracts the point I made.

You think we have slowed, I don't. Agree to disagree.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Jesus.H.Christ

OK. I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make there, or how that counteracts the point I made.

You think we have slowed, I don't. Agree to disagree.

my point is we have been fighting diseases for many years.
the diseases have evolved and got stronger but the medicines have not!

[Vicky.]

I think we will have rather stupidly gone to nuclear war and blown ourselves up within the next 50 years.

Happy days

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I think we will have rather stupidly gone to nuclear war and blown ourselves up within the next 50 years.

Happy days

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

my point is we have been fighting diseases for many years.
the diseases have evolved and got stronger but the medicines have not!

Well until they actually do evolve, it's impossible to work out exactly how it will play out.

[Roy Mars III]

the human race will be extinct in 50 years

[Marc]

I think our wrists and thumbs will be a lot more flexible.. as a result of technology (laptops, smart phones) and we may have naturally fatter bums