Charles Darwin said women bred the hair off of the men - because why aren't men as hairy as apes? - Darwin said women prefer less hairy men and so they were able to get more mating opportunities - Darwin said in The Descent of Man - what an idiot idea - then why don't the women have beards, Darwin?
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Okay. Even if this weren't ALL completely crazy, Hovind:
By your own logic, women wouldn't have beards because men do not prefer women with beards in general.
Except you. Because you're a hair fetishist. Because you're fucking Kent Hovind.
Err ... because men also prefer women without beards?
Seriously, what kind of stupid question is that?
I have a beard, If you are a woman, you will have one too, It's called menopause.I now shave more than my husband.It's your hormones at work.
Hmm. I seem to recall there is a group on the Indian subcontinent where the men prefer hairy women. Saw it on a CBC documentary once. We're talking unibrow and black hair on the arms here. So what do you have to say to that, Kent?
Kent?
Oh, right. You are busy making sure you don't drop the soap.
Now now, guys, Kent said this in October 2006, BEFORE he was incarcerated.
Clearly, he's seen bearded women since then.
Not all men can grow beards, either. The degree of facial and body hair varies widely between people and between populations.
Also, there are other hypotheses of why humans lost hair.
In this argument, he neglects to make the connection of statements: male and female apes are hairy. Darwin (apparently) only talks about why men lost hair through evolution. So why did women loose their hair? Sadly for him there are many answers to this already proposed and supported in the theory of evolution, so he just looks ill-educated, rather than clever.
"- then why don't the women have beards, Darwin?"
Because that resulted in bar fights when men got a little... um... frisky with what they thought was a woman. Sheesh Kent, do I have to come back from the grave and explain everything? - Charles Darwin
I noticed that this quote is two years old. I hope that Hovind is not allowed to communicate with the outside world in federal prison, aside from family and attorneys.
It's probably a good thing that he will miss half or most of The Obama Administration.
Being arrested for fraud, being imprisoned, being mocked on FSTDT- it's sort of like the temptations of Job, isn't it Kent? Except for the bit about it all being the direct consequence of your intentional dishonesty.
First off, I just gotta address this first, WHERE THE HECK DID THE WOMEN HAVING BEARDS COME FROM?!
SECONDLY, I am reading The Descent of Man. I can already tell from the chapter or two I read his theory is way off and is one of the most out-dated theories I've ever read. Even you, Hovind, shouldn't be so stupid as to take his theories as stuff to work off of. Read a book published in this decade. It's more accurate and has more evidence behind it -- things that Darwin lacked simply because he was writing a century and a half ago.
Personally, I don't like a lot of hair on my partners, and don't know many women who *do* like hairy men.
Interesting side note -- the average human has just as much body hair as the average chimp; it's just very, *very* fine, and hard to see.
Ok seriously, is Hovind fucking serious or what? I'm starting to think he's some sort of giant, epic poe or he's taking the piss whilst taking his follows for a ride as a nice little earner...which unfortunately for him ended in being jailed.
He can't actually belevie this shit.
@ #822287
Yeah, I'm not really sure Hovind believes his own shit either. But I'm suspicious of most of the big religious leaders, I think they're weasels that will say anything to get people to send them their money. +
Might be for the same reason, sexual selection. Charles Darwin wrote a lot of things, doesn't change the fact of Evolution or the ToE.
BTW ask your wife about extra facial hair that creeps in sometime around 30yrs. Bet she's tweezing or waxing.
Tes TOS ter rone.. say it with me! Testosterone! Good boy, here's a cookie.
And some women do have heavy facial hair.
Not sure if Darwin said that, but now sexual selection is more likely to be used to explain the RETENTION of hair on the head and beards in men. The loss of hair can be explained by a changing environment, which required us to be able to better regulate our body temperatures.
Humans are a funny species, and we aren't always rational about who we choose as a mate. That may explain many of the things tthat don't give us an edge, like blue eyes, blonde or red hair, beards for males, Asians' distinct eyes, etc. In a way, we're no better than other animals who choose their mates based on plumage, call, or length of antlers (insert "horny" joke here).
@ Jack Bauer
Possibly Kenny Boy has a little whisker burn betwixt the shoulder bades?
Does- does he think that "women breeding the hair off of the men" means they actually removed the hair from the men and put it onto their own faces?
Dear God. Hovind has reached new levels of stupidity.
Ok. Lack of hair except around your mouth (which also has unusually visible lips for an animal) makes your expressions more intelligible when you speak. Since humans talk a lot, this is important. same for the white of your eyes, and your eyebrows.
Sexual selection: if anybody finds some physical feature beautiful, it's good for everybody else to find it beautiful too, because they will try to mate with someone who'll make their children more beautiful and mateable.
It actually makes sense if you explain it clearly.
It doesn't really matter what Charles Darwin said. He's not the be all and end all of Evolution. We have come very far since his day, and there were many others who had similar ideas.
Women in Northen Europe must have liked hairy men more than women in Asia did. Or, it has something to do with climate and need to keep warm as well.
"Charles Darwin said women bred the hair off of the men - because why aren't men as hairy as apes?"
Not taking into account of the sheer bovine scatology of that notion, coupled with a large slice of '[citation Seriously Fucking needed]', you don't want to see me without my clothes, pal (and no not like that! [/perv]). Two words: Robin Williams.
"Darwin said in The Descent of Man - what an idiot idea - then why don't the women have beards, Darwin?"
Ahem:
http://www.e4.com/rudetube/animals10-1.html
(Scroll down to the No. 1 of the 'Animal Madness' Top Ten, then click the screen to start)
Apart from the hyper-cuteness of 'Surprised Kitty' Attila, said cat's owner will blast your argument out of the space-time continuum, Kentypoos.
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