On evolution

"Evolution is an exception, extinction is the rule", that's what Dr Tobias said in a documentary on Homo Sapiens I've just seen on ARTE (French-German channel). But the question underneath was:

Is that exception the result of a happy hasard making us happy few or is it some kind of choice making us chosen ones? And choice means choser...

Fortunately there was a debate afterwards with Scientists pointing out all the films' flaws.

According to the film, there would be also a law of increasing complexity that rules the universe form the beginning of life. Teilhard de Chardin wasn't far...

 Sapiens is still evolving. Ok. How? Why? To what?

 There are controversaries on evolution nowadays and the East Side Story (the australopithecus stood up because of living in savana) might be losing, but does it mean that there would be an inner logic guiding evolution? So far it's a Myth but the film kinda presented it as a discovery.

Basically the documentary supported only one theory, that of Anne Dambricourt, rejecting the idea of evolution through an adaption to environment, ignoring natural selection and focusing only on the various mutations of the sphenoid bone (as if Anne Dambricourt found this!). And of course the next question is why did that bone bend several times to lead to the hominidae and to Sapiens Sapiens? There would be an inner motor, hidden in architect-genes...and to make its point the film cheerfully mixed up the development of organisms and evolution of species.

Mmmm. The theme of an Intelligent Design (and Designer!)was not mentioned of course, that would have been too obvious, but I bet that Anne Dambricourt and the author of the documentary had religious beliefs and that screwed up any scientist rigour in that sneaky documentary. A certain message had to be spread and ARTE swallowed it up! 

That "documentary" was a sign of the times...