This is just my opinion, and I haven't personally heard or read about it before so tell me if it's already been suggested,

I see that one of the main questions asked about evolution is, "Then why have we stopped evolving?".
I don't think we have stopped evolving.

People presume we should still be evolving physically, like how we no longer have a tail, or how we don't have an opposable toe anymore, etc. But my theory is this:
Once we reached what is most convenient physically (were we are now), we started evolving mentally. Upgrading our tools, creating the wheel, getting airplanes in the sky, creating television, etc. Why did we not create an airplane when we were living in a cave? Because it wasn't fundamental to our survival.

Physically our aspects are fundamental, so we don't evolve in that area anymore.
Mentally we still evolve faster than we ever have before. Especially in terms of physic abilities and remote viewing, etc.

Richard Dawkins likes to stress that physically we aren't done evolving, hints support for this by the large number of people with back pain saying our bodies aren't use to walking erect.

I like to think that eventually (probably not telekinesis or that stuff) we will all evolve mentally more, the possibilities of what it could be is amazing.

It pretty obvious we have stopped though, Evolution occurs as a way for a species to overcome a challenge, and lets face it, as the dominaant species, carving the entire planet out as we see fit, we have no more need for it, pathetic as it sounds.

Yes we have no more need for physical evolving, that's what I mean. It'd be great to have a third arm though.
Therefore we begin mentally evolving, then creating things to try put our mind to rest, and ending up where we are now..

I am not sure we evlove, however I am sure we change. It is up to us if we want to turn this change into evolution or extinction.

You evolutionists are as bad as Christians. Can't even agree on aspects of your own religion

Evolution stops or continues depending on environmental factors.

Proof # 1: the coelecanth hasn't changed for millions of years and I believe neither has the shark and probably 100s of other species as well.

I think that's all the proof I need, eh? How can you let a creationist teach your religion to you?

Yes, I know evolution is not a religion. I'm just messing with your heads

I think humans are DE-evolving.

Just think, take an average Joe off the street now and drop them into the wilderness, and then drop Joe Caveman from 500 years ago in the wilderness. Who do you think will survive longer?

Of course we haven't stopped evolving. Nothing ever does.

We may have developed control over our environment to the point where we live comfortable lives and are no longer threatened by predators, but that doesn't mean we have eliminated the pressures that drive natural selection and therefore evolution.

To see why this is so, imagine an environment that is perfectly suited to human life. Plenty of good, nourishing food, clean air and water, complete security from natural threats (disease, predators, natural disasters) and every home comfort you could think of. Now put a random sample of, say, a million people into this environment and wait for results.

What do you think will happen? Will everyone thrive equally in this environment? No, of course they won't, because people are all different. Some will have special abilities or talents that enable them to do better in the chosen environment than others; likewise, some will have handicaps that cause them to do worse.

Over time, these differences will affect their reproductive success. The ones who thrive best in the environment will have more offspring than those that don't. Their genes will come to dominate the gene pool, and their physical and behavioural traits will be widely distributed in the population.

You see, when people speak of the environment affecting human evolution, they forget that the biggest single factor in that environment is other people. Darwin didn't forget it; he was very clear, from the outset, that the fiercest evolutionary competition is among members of the same species. No-one controls his environment until he controls all the people in it.

So even in the 'perfect environment' evolution will still continue.

And our real environment is far from perfect. It's rife with war, disease, famine, disaster, violence and crime. It is heterogenous, varying enormously from one part of the world to another. And it changes continually, this environment of ours, far more rapidly and unpredictably than the African savannah ecosystem in which we first evolved. The contemporary human environment imposes far greater selective pressures and stresses on us than any purely 'natural' environment.

So if anything, we are probably evolving faster than ever before.

After all, the rest of the planet is. Why should we be any different?

No animal, including humans (primates), will ever stop evolving.

Mankind is evolving today. We are changing and adapting not only to our environment, but we're also bringing on change artificially through advances in medical science. A good example is that an increasing number of people are born without wisdom teeth. This may, or may not, be related to having them pulled generation after generation, but it is a change that seems to be happening whatever the cause. More interesting than that is that fact that even no person, in this generation, were to be born with any wisdom teeth at all generations in the future could actually be born with their wisdom teeth, and it's all because the genotype could simply be going dormant. Genetics is a very fascinating subject.

I wish I could provide a link to the study that discovered dormant genes becoming active again, it was a very fascinating read.

Anyway, having said all this, I feel that evolution as we understand it is not as Darwin saw it. Yes it does happen, but it's not a single organism to multi-celled organism, over millions of years, kind of thing.

This has always interested me and its very true because we are constantly evolving...Unfortunately due to our extreme circumstances in these times, I believe we are accelerating at a faster rate and not fully aware of it. I would also go as far as to say that some of us are evolving benevolently and some of us negatively.

Proof? Well...Emotions are far more intense. Crimes/Conflicts are far more intense. Thoughts are more predominant. Idea's more frequent. Premonition/Prediction/Theory is at an all-time high.

Think back to say...1909...People didn't express themselves the same way they do in 2009. 100 years ago, we weren't having the same feelings pass through us we do now.

It feels to me as if everything is intensifying and that I believe is part of evolution. Mankind is not evolving physically (if we are its uncomprehendingly slow) but mentally/psychically (don't mean moving objects with mind and teleporting) Anyone relate to that?