Technology. The Anti-Evolution

I know there are plenty of people that do not believe in evolution and and just as many that would defend it to the death but this is my spin for the moment.

Assuming evolution...

Of all the creatures in the world that have evolved and spread or died out, one thing is the same. Basicaly it fell down to either the race was able to adapt to their surroundings or not. If they adapted, numbers grew and they kept living. If not, then they exist only in a book somewhere. This was the rule until humans came along. At first, our bodies got bigger, arms stronger, legs faster. We adapted to our surroundings or we migrated, but then something new happened. Our brains got stronger. Our understanding of our surroundings became more indepth until finaly the question changed from, "How can I adapt to my surroundings?" to, "How can I adapt my surrounds to me?" At that point man-kind stopped moving along the customary line of evolution and embarked on a new path, blazing a trail that would only be followed by the rest of man-kind. As far back as recorded history, we have had tools of some kind. Our tools have changed thousands of times and gotten faste, stronger, lighter, and better, yet we are roughly exactly the same physicaly as we have been since the begining of that recorded history. Now, we don't evolve. Our technology evolves. To some degree, we almost have de-evolved. Take the appendix. It went from a required part of our body in order to function to simply a sac that just collects poisons from within you body your whole life, but has nowhere to put them. If it ever rupturs, it has to be cut out immediatly our else you will die. Argueably, in a few generations, we won't even have an appendix anymore.
We aquire knowledge and build upon it. We cheat evolution by writing it all down so we don't have to learn it again. Our distances of travel became too far so we made vehicles. Our lines of communication became too slow so we invented phones and Television and the internet. Our food, our shelter, our ability to learn, travel, communication, practically everyting about us can be controled or modified to adapt to whatever we want. With few exeptions, we will never evolve as race. The only thing left to give evolution even a chance at adjusting us is sports. Sports are the only thing that we as a race have that is specificaly designed to play upon the limitations of our bodies. We created an environment in which we must act without technology. In this realm it is truly the faster, stronger, better people that win. Our athletes will evolve. Our athletes will become taller. They will be able to run faster, jump higher, and swim without air longer. They will be able to endure longer stretches of "battle."You will see our sports begin "updating" the rules because the limitations that were previously set just aren't limitaions anymore. It will almost become a sub-race of humans for each sport there is. Those geneticly predisposed to these athletic events will continue to evolve to adapt to the sport they they play. I'm not talking people with elephant noses and bird people. I'm talking about all-stars and heros. The Michael Jordans and Dale Earnhardts. The people that go so far beyond the standards of the sport that they play that they redifine the sport. We will all survive and grow but only they will evolve. They will become things that we only wish we could be until finaly they are so far out of reach by the common person that they will be given a new classification. For now, they are called heros, and legends, and allstars. With time they will be given a name more powerful. They will become an entirely seperate race, and we will be there every teeny tiny step along the way changing the rules and resetting the limitations in an attempt to make the game more challenging which makes the game for fun which forces the players to constantly become even faster, ever stronger, and even better. Better... they will be better, but only at that sport and maybe a few things that translate into the same goals. They will be people. They will roughly look the same as all of us, but they will still be set apart because they will be something the rest of us will never become. Just remember though, they only became that way because we asked, "What can we do to make it adapt to our goals?", and they asked, "What can we do to survive?"