Evolution Isn’t What It Used to Be: Walter Truett Anderson reminded us in 1996 of what H. G. Wells wrote in his essay “Human Evolution as an Artificial Process” over a century ago. As films like The Creature Walks Among Us and the various Islands of Moreau’s archipelago have shown, human beings are capable (intellectually if not morally) of controlling their own evolution now. Although “the human-animal connection” is “a controversy raging still...
