Agree or Disagree with Speakers' Optimism - Assignment Example

Scientific and technological developments are part of our evolution and they do not necessarily intervene. I also do not agree with Dean Burnett’s argument that the convenience brought by technology made us physically weak.For example, Dean Burnett’s argued in his article entitled “Human evolution: the next stages” that “An increasingly health-and-safety conscious world where people are prepared to sue for even the most trivial injury means the danger of forceful impact is reducing, and as such rigid and inflexible bones won't be as essential to humans”.

It is implied in this argument that modern man is getting weaker because he is used to the convenience that evolutionary consequence in order to adapt better to the environment such as having more cartilage to become stronger is not happening. I disagree with this statement because man is, in fact, getting stronger even without the added cartilages as he suggested. If only Burnett cared to watch sports events such as Olympics where records after records are being broken, he too may change his mind that we are now way stronger than before.

Technology did not intervene in our physical development. It enhanced it with a better formulation of supplements, better techniques in exercise and training and a better understanding of how our body would function better. Taken together, it tremendously improved our evolutionary process that our improvement is become exponential compared to the gradual evolution of yesteryears.