If we had evolved into a human, then why am I not changing now, or my kids? My kids look the same to me. People in the arctic aren't growing fur. :P
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Yes, but people far from the equator have lighter skin, in order for their skin to absorb more sunlight and help them with the vitamin D and calcium in order to maintain strong bones. And, you know, not break a hip while giving birth.
And, you know, not dying, and sticking around to have and raise children.
Yeah, I'm white for no reason. God just felt like it. *eye roll*
"People in the arctic aren't growing fur"
No. If people were intelligently designed, people (and all mammals) in the arctic would have feathers. Feathers and down are several times more effective than fur for insulation.
People in the arctic aren't growing fur
If God designed them, and fur was a such a good idea, then why didn't God give them fur?
But they tend to be shorter and stockier than people who live near the Equator, to conserve body heat. Likewise, those at the Equator tend to be tall and thin to radiate heat. Pygmies are the exception. Those in mountainous areas like the Andes or Tibet have large chests to breathe the thin air that would give us altitude sickness. This is how humans have evolved. My family evolved for the lack of sunlight in Ireland, but a move to Florida or Arizona is unthinkable without a truckload of sunblock to ward off a quick sunburn abd eventual skin cancer.
INDIVIDUAL LIFEFORMS DO NOT EVOLVE!! POPULATIONS DO!!
Look what your stupid did! It made me resort to CAPS LOCK! I am a circular argument, thirty I.Q. points, and a Bible away from being one of you!
If we had evolved into a human, then why am I not changing now, or my kids?
You are changing. Evolutionary changes are generally very small and happen over an extremely long period of time. If you can make it back to Earth in, say, 2 million years, you will find a very different Human race.
My kids look the same to me.
That's probably because their mother is your sister.
@MessServant...
Eskimos....round? What the hell are you talking about?
And, by the way, there is no, nor has there ever been a, people called "Eskimos." They are called "Inuit."
And based on your ignorant asshattery in other threads, you sure you don't want to call them "Ice Negores?"
why am I not changing now, or my kids?
Eh, one generation, a fifty million years, all the same right?
My kids look the same to me.
Your kids look exactly the same as yourself?
Exactly the same facial features, exactly the same body measurements, exactly the same eyes and hair color?
If one of these questions can be answered with no, then you have admitted that changes happen ;)
These changes may not be large enough to turn your kids into a new species, but you know what?
We put you and several thousand other fundamentalists with some tools onto a desolate island with no contact to the rest of mankind (or we simply put you onto another planet with breathable atmosphere and a flora and fauna that can be used as food).
After maybe 1-10 million years our offspring send a delegation to your island. Chances are good that the appearance of the surivors of your "expedition" will have changed considerably compared to the rest of mankind.
Chances are also there that at this time you won´t be able to have offspring with someone of the rest of mankind anymore. I.e. ythe survivors of your expedition will have turned into a separate hominid species.
My kids look the same to me
It's because your eyes are evolving too. If they looked different to you every time they evolved, you wouldn't recognise them, would you?
"If we had evolved into a human, then why am I not changing now, or my kids?"
Populations evolve, not individuals.
"My kids look the same to me."
Obviously you've never seen the experiment where you take a photo of your child every day for a period of at least a year; the longer the better. At the end of that time if you look at the photos in chronological order the changes one undergoes, even from one day to another, are quite obvious.
"People in the arctic aren't growing fur. :P"
No. Natives of the region tend to be more compact though. Shorter torsos, arms and legs help to reduce heat loss which would be an evolutionary adaptation to their environment. Much like those who live on the hot, arid plains of Africa tend to be tall and lean in order to increase surface area so as to radiate heat more efficiently.
"People in the arctic aren't growing fur."
Well, you could have actually researched this. Go to Google, type in a few terms, read what the sites have to offer. You'll learn that peoples do adapt to their climates. You'll also learn that there's more to handling the cold than just fur.
You could have checked out one of the first ones on my Google results, http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/ , and clicked on "Adapting to Climate Extremes". You could have avoided your shame.
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Have you ever READ the Origin of Species beyond the main title? I think not, sorry I know you haven't.
When the Muslims rioted over Salman Rushdies book "The Satanic Verses" I can garauntee NONE of them read ever it but listened to thier fire-brand imams who ALSO hadn't read it.
Evloution is continuously occuring but over several generations, not 1 or even 2, but 15-20.
Two short planks - as thick as.
You are evolving. It is a process that takes place over aeons. It doesn't fit at all with Fundamentalist mythology which only allows for 6,000 years since creation.
Because it takes millions of years. Yet I'm wasting my time, because you will never read this and wouldn't pay any attention if you did. Meanwhile, fundie after fundie would ask the same question, get the same answer, and not pay attention the way you didn't.
I guess I'm feeling jaded today. I hope that's the right word.
Because you DIDN'T evolve into a human. You were born one and you'll die one.
And skin color, height, eye color, hair color, fat or skinny - these are all variations due to evolution. Geographically separate populations evolve differently. This is why there are so many more black people in Africa than Asia.
And given enough time, the people in the Arctic will evolve some trait to help them cope better. Though they seem to be doing ok as it is.
Learn how shit works before you start bitching about it.
>>approximate
Try their diet for a year. It would kill you. (or me, or anybody who isn't Inuit) <<
What, you don't like seal blubber stew?
You need to eat more of the purple crystals. Oh and don't forget to level up! :p
(note, evolution does not work that way)
Oh fuck, not this crap again.
Before you criticise evolution at least try and get a very basic understanding of how it works (for work it does). I guess you might be one of those idiots who thinks that evolution means a cat can give birth to a dog.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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