In Response to all below. I like the Idea of the teacher on some part. More on part of the Engineer. Both are forgetting that any sufficient level of technology above our own can be considered magic. While I don't think it's that far advanced. To Express a level of intensity and further the evolution of our species. It's not out of the question as to how it can be done. It's in out genes. It's over years of evolution to make certain genes come out. From a Teaching stand point. That's what we do. Teach those to be better than ourselves. So they can do the same. Without our genes doing so to help in some way, (Id say more like latent memory's) we'd really be no where. We would have to re learn everything. From an Engineer's point of view. We learn something and put it into effect. The next class see's that and learns and improves from that. So why not have the Spartans as that are improved from our standing to the best we can do still have unlocked potential? At the most what has been learned from the point of view of 343 about the FR. They use a DNA type for securing their systems. Hence the covenant and such cant interact without a hacking of sort. We are in and of itself here to operate it. When the Librarian said she could accelerate it. She could take our latent abilities as (Spartans II's/ Humans) and process them even more so. Making us more so evolved. To say is is magic. I doubt that. Take a ball point pen to a tribe in Brazil or Africa untouched by modern humans and see how they are. Show them a real hockey or basketball game. It's all magic and perception on what we can do. Today's world people can become dependent on steroids to become stronger and faster. What happens when their body is going through passes on to the next generation. Oh yea, Beauty, Strength, Intelligence. Who would of thought. So to think what what we could do to our own in genetic manipulation and chemical manipulation to improve our species is perfect only for someone who is a 1k years beyond us say hey this is where you need to improve is a bad thing or just magic is mad???? Seriously? No matter how much we improve, There is always room for improvement. Take a 400lb person to an an Olympic athlete. You have so much inner strength to outer ability (strength) but only to a point. Stressing definition. When you combine both you get strength and versatility to over compensate the later. What would be the better? Nothing unless you had someone to cross genes. Or unlock the genes to express both. Thus being the best in strength and versatility while being all around looking normal. You cant think just for being a one type person of one trait to be better when it takes more so to be better than all. Add the all the traits and you's want that more than you want yourself. Whats better in the end? The better you or the better everyone from what you can do?

If you honestly can find something to debate about this. Pleas do so. I think I find the best on both parts. Both Teacher, and Engineer for this discussion.

: There's a lovely article on i09 today about the nonsensical ways that
: "evolution" works in sci-fi. 343's Halo fiction has been
: particularly guilty of this as of late (certainly 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 10 in
: that article), and it's been driving me up the wall.

: A few examples: -Librarian can apparently plan the course of evolution over
: many generations. There is in fact no roadmap to evolution, and no way for
: there to be one without invoking divine power. Populations of organisms
: change over time in response to their environment, with characteristics
: that improve survival being more likely to be passed down. But since
: populations are adapted for their specific environmental circumstances,
: there is no such thing as being higher or lower evolved. There is only
: ideal adaptation to a particular environment, and environments change all
: the time. So unless Librarian is manipulating climate conditions on Earth
: or something, her guiding of evolution is nonsensical. I certainly don't
: see how "guiding" evolution would let her plant the idea to
: invent Mjolnir and Cortana, which she implies in Halo 4.

: -Librarian can "accelerate" the Chief's evolutionary journey. I
: don't know what an evolutionary journey is, but evolutionary changes do
: not occur on the level of an individual within their
: lifetime...incremental changes that prove beneficial are passed on to
: offspring. Changing something in the Chief instantly to make him immune to
: the Composer isn't biology, it's magic.

: -All the ancestral humans are white dudes, both in Legends and the Halo 4
: terminals. The archaeological record clearly shows that humans originated
: in Africa, and that for most of the species' history, all humans would
: have looked like people of African origin. Lighter skin and fuzzy faces
: are relatively recent adaptations of populations that migrated to northern
: Europe. Portraying ancestral/original humans as white doesn't just raise
: all sorts of problematic social concerns, it's straight-up historically
: wrong.

: -Halsey calls spartans "humanity's next step, our destiny as a
: species." This nearly ruins the otherwise awesome opening scene to
: Halo 4 for me, because it means absolutely nothing and makes Halsey sound
: like a crazy Dr. Science. The spartans were augmented, but if Halsey is
: implying they could somehow pass that augmentation to offspring, she's
: fallen off the Lamarckian cliff. Or does she think that all humans in
: the future should be augmented? Her attitude toward the Spartan IVs later
: on would suggest otherwise. Basically, this line is dumb.

: Evolution is a well-established fact of nature, but politicization and
: misrepresentation mean that less than half of Americans accept that it
: exists, and fewer understand how it works. And understanding evolution is
: important not only to understand ourselves and world around us, but to
: understand important issues like medicine, disease, genetically-modified
: food, etc. So when we have popular entertainment throwing around the term
: "evolution" in a wanton way that has no bearing on the real
: biological process, it only confounds the problem. *Full disclosure: I'm a
: science teacher, and it's important to me that people have some basic
: science literacy.*

: 343, I beg of you, if you want these plot contrivances to happen, please call
: them magic, not evolution. But I think you can do better, regardless.