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To: AmericaUnited
[Quick, why do you get goosebumps when you're cold or scared? Hint: It was functional back when our distant ancesters had fur.]

Oh boy... That is just down right laughable!

If you find the truth laughable, well, there are medications for that kind of thing.

These same idiots who claim that is why we get goosebumbs,

Okay, I'll bite -- *you* tell me why we get goosebumps. What functional purpose do they serve? Why did an alleged "designer" give us the exact same mechanism that furred animals use to erect their fur for heat-retention and threat displays, despite the fact that due to our sparse body hair, it serves neither of those functions for us? For what "design purpose" do we get goosebumps? Now's your chance to add more to the discussion than simply braying like a mule. Anyone can ridicule, especially if they don't even bother to explain their giggling as is the case with your post. So come on, put your own analysis into the ring and let us see if you have any clue what you're talking about. We'll wait.

are also the ones that said things like "the appendix is useless, serves no function, leftover from our earlier days", and other equally PROFOUNDLY, IGNORANT MUTTERINGS.

Here, learn something before you get hysterical again: The vestigiality of the human vermiform appendix.

195 posted on 01/31/2006 10:12:06 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon; AmericaUnited
...despite the fact that due to our sparse body hair,...

as an aside--can you explain why our body hair grows thickest in the warmest parts of our body? (Exception being the head, but that's not body hair).

Why do we acquire pubic hair only at sexual maturity? Why does our hear grow thickest between the legs and under the arms--the two warmest places on the human body?

Obviously our body hair has nothing to do with protection from the elements, and it never did.

200 posted on 01/31/2006 10:16:45 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Ichneumon

Do all the links and references that you and others supply to overwhelm those of us who do not accept your position prove that we all originated naturalistically and could not have resulted from creation?

And, since you state that 12 transistional forms have been found are you disagreeing with evolutionist Jeffrey Schwartz of Pitt U when he suggests that the Darwinian model of evolution as continual and gradual adaptation to the environment glosses over gaps in the fossil record by assuming the intervening fossils simply have not been found yet, but argues, they have not been found because they don't exist, since evolution is not necessarily gradual but often sudden, dramatic expressions of change that began on the cellular level because of radical environmental stressors--like extreme heat, cold, or crowding from years earlier? (Recently posted, I think.) Or are we just in for another round of revision of your biology?


212 posted on 01/31/2006 10:32:00 AM PST by DX10
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To: Ichneumon
If you find the truth laughable, well, there are medications for that kind of thing.

Please, enough of claiming to 'know' the truth. Guys like you have been wrong time and time and time again, and yet that doesn't stop you from spouting some new cockamamie theory as gospel truth, and doing it with a straight face. Some of us are smart enough to understand how much we really dont know.

For example... It was thought up until very recently that a person could not grow brain cells. BZZZ- WRONG! Now we know that is not true. "The appendix serves no purpose". BZZZ- WRONG! "Tonsils serves no purpose". BZZZ- WRONG! And on and on.

Why did an alleged "designer" give us the exact same mechanism that furred animals use to erect their fur for heat-retention and threat displays, despite the fact that due to our sparse body hair, it serves neither of those functions for us? For what "design purpose" do we get goosebumps?

Some believe that goosebumps in humans act as an aid to amplify the sense of touch. This of course would makes perfect sense, as an additional 'fight or flight' mechanism.

296 posted on 01/31/2006 1:04:36 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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