Well, if we are going to talk about absurdities in evolution, how about this?
First, how are humans able to perceive beauty, or even desire to see it?
A beautiful sunset or the clouds in the sky have no evolutionary advantage.
The capacity if not tendency toward beauty defies evolution.
And what about beauty in a mate?
What men desire in a women is ANTI-evolutionary.
Evolutionary pressures would favor selection of RUGGED, strong, resilient females — not delicate, easily-broken females.
Smaller women have difficulties with giving birth to large babies. Larger babies at birth are more survivable and can grow to be self-sufficient more quickly.
So if evolution were true, men would desire women as large and rugged as they are — not smaller, more slender, more delicate women.
Fat women should be more attractive because a woman (a) with energy reserves and (b) the capacity to acquire lots of food would be more likely to successfully reproduce healthy offspring.
“Our brains are shaped for fitness, not for truth; sometimes the truth is adaptive, sometimes it is not.”
- Steven Pinker, evolutionary cognitive psychologist, How the Mind Works (W.W. Norton, 1997), p. 305.
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…that if we would maintain the value of our highest beliefs and emotions, we must find for them a congruous origin. Beauty must be more than accident. The source of morality must be moral. The source of knowledge must be rational.
- Sir Arthur Balfour