Q: why do humans have wisdom teeth.
It's because pre-Flood humans were giants (along with all the giant mammals. giant reptiles, giant insects, etc. that we find in the fossil record). The fossil record bears witness of 9-12 ft. tall humans before the Flood.
After the Flood, humans (and everything else) got smaller due to the change in atmosphere; our skulls got smaller, but we still retained the genes for the extra molar. As our skulls got smaller, the number of teeth remained, and are now crowded out on a smaller jaw by the other teeth.
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Um, no, because the fossil record shows that the "flood" didn't happen, so everything you say beyond that is utter bullshit.
You must, however, be a giant, in order to pack that much stupid into one person.
"The fossil record bears witness of 9-12 ft. tall humans before the Flood."
No, it doesn't. People have been claiming to find giant skeletons for centuries, but they always turn out to be hoaxes (or conveniently disappear).
Okay. . . . I could come up with lots of different stories about where wisdom teeth came from and where they went (and I suspect, as with lactose tolerance, that a problem with these teeth is not a problem for the majority or the world's population), which may all be wrong, but they'd all be based on observation and known science (and be plausible. . .).
And you have these fossils, or can show us where we can find these fossils?
Oh and are you saying we've EVOLVED over the last 6 thousand years? But Evolving over millions of years is utterly ridiculous?
Um ... no . Most fossil hominids were either the same size as or significantly smaller than modern humans. The only larger ones (some Homo erectus -types) were more in the 6'3" - 6'6" range, not 9 to 12 feet. Homo erectus paleojavanicus /"Meganthropus" used to be estimated at 9 feet, but this is discredited. The 9-10 foot (if bipedally standing; it would have been mostly quadrupedal) Gigantopithecus , the only true primate giant known, was related to orangutans and not even close to the human line.
Awesome, it all makes sense now! I see the light!
But I only had 3 wisdom teeth, not 4. What does that mean? Am I more evolved or less evolved? A giant or a midget? Saved or damned? Or did I just really, really enjoy the laughing gas when they were extracted and that is all that realy matters?
He does know that not all prehistoric animals were giant, and most were actually pretty small/same size as animals today?
Who am I kidding, he clearly doesn't know anything.
it never ceases to amaze me that, in this century, people still believe this crap. i mean, my five year old cousin is smarter than this, and he wears spider-man underoos.
The creationist John Mackay is one who claims that humans were at least twice the size Pre Flood ,he uses this to make Noah's Ark bigger by claiming that as cubits are based on arm length ,cubits were bigger then and so Noah built the Ark twice the size and got twice as many animals in it.
The lengths these people go to ,to try and 'prove' their myth is real is quite amazing.
A mishmash of Hovind (atmosphere and giants), Mackay (giants), and Carl Baugh (huge human footprint fossil). So take a lot of crap, stir it up, and apply it to wisdom teeth.
Kira is actually somewhat right. One of the theories for wisdom teeth is that the human jaw was larger at one point, and we had more teeth. As humans learned ways to tenderize food, jaws gradually became more delicate.
Another theory is that wisdom teeth would have replaced teeth that most early humans would have lost through regular wear and tear by the time they hit adulthood.
Interestingly, 20% of people never develope wisdom teeth.
Actually humans have wisdom teeth because those extra used to fit in our mouths perfectly and our closest relatives have that many molar teeth naturally. We just haven't had enough time to evolve away those extra teeth, but we've made progress since a lot of people don't have all 4 wisdom teeth. Rarely you can keep your wisdom teeth. The only 1 I have is coming in normally (late obviously but in the right position) so the dentist said its OK to just let that one grow in. It's already poking out.
"And with us today, we have Dr. Queen Kira from the Department of Making Up Bullshit. I understand you have some evidence from the fossil record of 12 feet tall humans?"
"Oh no no. I am just going to state that such evidence exists."
"Oh of course."
*laughter*
Something just now occurred to me, and I know I'm probably on the slow-coach for this one, but if people used to be giants, then where are all the giant-people fossils? I mean, we've found the giant-lizards, and the giant-mammals, and the giant-birds, but I've never seen or heard about a giant-person.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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