The world markets are failing, the country is buried in partisan hatred, and if that isn't bad enough...a scientist in England says human evolution has ceased....

But our producer Josh Terry... in his weekly observation...says that might just be a mutation of common sense.

Dr. Steven Jones is a geneticist with University College London.

In a lecture earlier this week, he claimed that we are at the tail end of the evolutionary donkey. He says evolutionary forces like natural selection and genetic mutation are no longer relevant in our modern society.

The End of Evolution "If you are worried about what Utopia is going to be like, don't. At least in the developed world, and at least for the time being, you are living in it now." Professor Steven Jones University College London »
"If you are worried about what Utopia is going to be like," he says, "don't. At least in the developed world, and at least for the time being, you are living in it now."

So drink it in ladies, you're looking at the zenith of human progress.

In memoriam, I’ve listed the top five mutant powers I will never have:

1. X-Ray Vision
2. Supersonic Capeless Flight
3. Kung-Fu Action Forearms
4. Super-Telepathic Traffic Manipulation
5. Spontaneous Hair Regeneration

I don't mean to come across as someone who rejects science because I hold a religious belief. I have a deep respect and appreciation for science, though the theory of evolution does have a strange way of debasing and exalting the human race at the same time.

Either way, it's pretty arrogant to assume that anything which falls outside our own personal realm of understanding is untrue. As Hamlet told his friend Horatio:

"There are more things in heaven and earth, ...than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5)