Our bodies have been in constant need of water sinse the apes and before. Why haven't we learned how to drink from the rain?
Why did we evolve to have to wear shoes? I would think we would have tough feet.
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Humans have found multiple ways to move backwards when it comes to evolution. I think a better question would be, "Why did your omnipotent god create a faulty being that needs to wear shoes, eat food, and sleep." You are aware that these are considered design flaws, right?
Actually, if you walk around barefoot, your feet do get tougher. I'd try it myself, but being in Boston in the winter is tough to do barefoot.
Uh, just who _hasn't_ learned methods to collect rainwater? Depending on the rate, you may have to be patient, but it's not exactly rocket science.
"Uh, just who _hasn't_ learned methods to collect rainwater? Depending on the rate, you may have to be patient, but it's not exactly rocket science."
Who hasn't? Why, fundies like dujavi, who are too busy pretending to read the bible, and posting on internet forums, to actually think.
<<< Why haven't we learned how to drink from the rain? >>>
You've never seen little kids playing in the rain and sticking their tongues out to catch some? Or people putting out buckets to catch rainwater (generally for purposes other than drinking, but the point stands)?
<<< Why did we evolve to have to wear shoes? >>>
We don't have to. Outside in the summer, I go barefoot fairly often. And the more often you do it, the tougher your feet get.
Crosis: "We don't have to. Outside in the summer, I go barefoot fairly often. And the more often you do it, the tougher your feet get."
So I'm not the only one!!! Woo-hoo!!! But surely, can no one else remember signs in restaurants/stores along the lines of "No shoes, no shirt, no service"? When I was younger, I only wore shoes when I went to the store (in the summer anyway).
Of course, I wear shoes now because the magnetic insoles wouldn't relieve my lower back pain otherwise[/sarcasm].
Mr. Turquoise
this captures the essence of why the Religious Right preaches creationism: to pander to weak-minded individuals, and turn them into wackos they can bring out against any political cause. It is so much easier to just believe in 6day creation becaus the Bible says so. I bet in the Religious Right Elite, there are a lot of closet evolutionists.
I've seen pictures of this bedouin guy in National Geographic. His skin was medium brown but a lifetime of walking barefoot in the dry sand and grass calloused the balls of his feet into leathery black pads, like a cats paws. I walk around without shoes a fair bit and the balls of my feet are pretty tough. I once picked a quarter inch glass shard out of the outside callous and it didn't bleed or hurt much.
Why havn't we learned to drink from the rain? Well due to a LACK of intelligent design we have our lungs and stomach hooked up to the same openings. With the exception of fish, lungfish and amphibians (where this design flaw originated) uncontrolled drinking fills the lungs with dangerous amounts of water. This is coded into the basic chordate gene structure and so far there hasn't been any mutation to start mammals into a new phylum with entirely seperate respiritory and digestive systems like insects have.
Basically it's a leftover from the evoloution of fish towards land animals around a billion years back.
And why did we evolve to drive cars, and fulfill markets for anti-perspirants, shaving products and all those other things we do.
Fuck the chicken or the egg (not literally) -- what came first, the foot or the shoe?
So...since we didn't evolve into a sponge, evolution didn't happen, and because we (ahem) CHOOSE to wear shoes, we didn't evolve either
We do have tough feet, tougher than most shoes.
We "evolved" an interest in travel, and moved to countries where it's too cold to go barefoot, or too much sharp rocks around.
As most water is at sometime rain, we do drink from the rain.
We are still apes, and it's "since", stupid.
As has been pointed out, it is perfectly possible to go barefoot, not only in Africa where we evolved, but often in other environments as well. I myself have been curious as to why we became a "naked ape" who needs clothes, but again clothes are a lot less necessary where we evolved. For me, the most compelling evidence for evolution should surely be human diversity. Skin color is just one way that ethnic groups have evolved to suit local conditions. African people are more resistant to tropical diseases than white people. Why would god design people to be more resistant to diseases which he himself created? Apparent bad design is actually evidence for evolution, in that an Intelligent Designer would presumably make things perfect, whereas evolution can only produce designs via modification of existing forms.
Actually, we would have tougher feet, but, well, we use shoes. Our feet are so weak due to shoes.
People can go barefoot, and people who walk around barefoot a lot develop tougher feet.
The reason shoes were invented originally was probably because people moved to colder climates than we evolved in and if they didn't protect their feet they've have lost them to frostbite during the winter.
And what, you've never caught raindrops on your tongue? We can drink from the rain, but it doesn't rain every day in most places, and even if it did, we'd have to spend a lot of time with out mouths open drinking raindrops to get enough water to live. Animals drink from ponds, and our ancestors would have too. But unfiltered water can transmit diseases so that's why most people don't drink form ponds anymore.
Our bodies have been in constant need of water since the our ancestors left the ocean a billion years ago, or so.
Walk barefoot for a few months, then you'll see how tough your feet are.
"Why haven't we learned how to drink from the rain? "
Because we are really lazy and have learned that it's much easier to wait for the rain to land, and then drink it than it is to run around with our mouths open, crashing into trees and falling off mountainsides.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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