Posted on 10/30/2009 7:49:53 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Alongside all the public interest in sporting prowess, recent research has added significantly to our knowledge of how the human body actually works. Many characteristics we take for granted now appear to be critical success factors. Take, for example, our toes. We do not need long toes, like monkeys and apes, because our toes are not used for grasping branches. But are they vestigial - withered remnants of once-grand appendages? The answer is: most definitely not! Whilst it is possible to walk comfortably with longer toes, running is different. Increase toe length by just 20% and there is a doubling of the peak digital flexor impulses and the mechanical work required.
It emerges that the human body has numerous traits that all support the ability to run...
(Excerpt) Read more at arn.org ...
The idea of natural selection in humans gets a little confusing when you consider the importance of man’s brainpower and his unmatched ability to share knowledge and skills with his pack mates.
I would suggest to you that in humans the only natural selection pressures of major significance are those that select one pack of humans’ warfare technology over another’s. I don’t see genetics being terribly important. The most profound feature, imo, is the genocidal utility of a tribe’s weaponry...and the effectiveness of his defenses and fortifications.
Man is so extremely head and shoulders above every other creature on the planet, man is not in competition with animals. i don’t even think man is competing with man for ability to ingest animal protein.
Man is in competition with man for power and control over man.
12 hours today at $100 per hour, just worked my seventh consecutive day and I have learned that a few minutes with you and a rum and coke helps me wind down.
If you get off your horse, grab the reigns, and lead him on a death march at a speed of your choosing...no stopping allowed...you will almost certainly win.
OK, I’ll bite, what are you trying to accomplish on FR?
Oh. After you have ridden him wet ...
Well, if your performance on FR is any indication, someone is severely wasting their money.
ah...no. I think you know that is not what I meant.
A little fun, meet new views, play around with a few of the old views, pass the time, wind down.
Why do you ask?
I love you, man.
Please show me more than your opinion on this. How about some data.
Because you brought it up. Sounds like you have already pickled your short-term memory right out of your brain.
“I must not be human. I was definitely not born to run. I try hard not to even walk very fast.”
LOL. Me neither. The monkey I evolved from sucked at sports.
I am not going to ignore your attempts at bullying and intimidation directed towards me or anyone else. My service was not exceptional in my families experience. My father earned two purple hearts (one more than me) and a silver star in the Pacific in WWII. My grandfather was gassed, received a bayonet wound and was decorated in France in WWI. My Grandfather's grandfather died a POW at Andersonville in the Civil War and I have a direct ancestor who wintered at Valley Forge with Washington. That doesn't give either of us the right to crap on another poster because we personally disagree with their positions. If you would shut your transmitter down long enough you might be surprised at what your receiver might pick up.
I’ll take that as a compliment :o)
Right back at ya!!!
Actually not. But you are free to think whatever you want.
Thanks for the ping!
“To: Natural Law
Yes, I’m sure you speak for jackbooted evos everywhere. Unfortunately for fascist evo-atheists like yourself, the owner of FR knows the score, having watched your evo-atheist ACLU minions ban Creation and ID from our schools, universities, government research, and the MSM. He has thus designated FR as a place where the Christian Right can have an equal voice with the rest of the conservative movement. So at least on this enclave of freedom and liberty in cyberspace, you are just going to have get used to us, or take your totalitarian self elsewhere.”
Word.
Talk about logical fallacies:
Do we “not need” long toes because our toes are “not used” for hanging from trees? Or do we not hang from our toes because we can’t?
I guess being ignored proved too much for you to bear. Are there any other stories you would like to share?
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