Woody: Well, I hate to break it to you, but your father was wrong - dentist or not. African Americans have the same number of wisdom teeth as you do. Don't bother. It's not true. Sorry, but he was wrong too. Maybe you should tell him (?) No. The reason that African Americans make good sprinters is because they tend to have a greater accumulation of fast-twitch muscle fibres than caucasians. They don't have "extra muscles". But, maybe you jsut misinterpreted something you heard. Oh, and with the basketball, evidence suggests that the black dominance of basketball and lack of success in swimming is largely a cultural thing. What proportion of the black population has regular access to swimming pools from a young age, do you think? How about basketball courts? Making racist assumptions doesn't make you look good, Woody, and I don't think it is something a good Christian should do, do you?
For th record I believe in God as the creator of all things, the creator of evolution , the creator of the gases required for the big bang. I do not believe however that he is responsible for every little mishap that befalls humans, and I do not believe in the stories re Adam and Eve, this is a symbolic story and not meant to be literal. There is so much stuff we do today we have no idea why but we do it because we always have. White iced birthday cakes for example? Do you as a Christian enjoy those? Sinner! They originated from a a pagan ritual of moon worshipping, hence round, white and candles! Shame on you!
First a background statement: I agree with the view (sometimes held to be an expression of political correctness) that there is no such thing as race. That is to say, the genetic variations between individuals in one race (e.g. blood type) are greater than the genetic variations between races. However, this does not mean that some characteristics are not to be commonly found within a particular race, just that these differences, in the larger scheme of things are not significant. In the smaller scheme of things they can be. I am a keen follower of athletics (Translation for Americans - this is not synonomous with sports. Athletics means track and field, cross country running, road running). It has long struck me that all the top sprinters in the World are from West Africa, or have West African ancestry. Most of the top long distance runners are from East Africa, none from West, and a smattering from North. James R has correctly noted the higher proportion of fast twitch muscles found in black sprinters. There is a corresponding higher proportion of slow twitch muscles found in the long distance runners. Why would that be? If you are fleeing a predator, or hunting game, in dense forests, a rapid sprint is probably all that is needed to carry you out of harms way. In contrast, on wide open savanna, following migrating heards, stamina is the name of the game. Now you don't just suppose , Woody, that could be yet another example of evolution at work?
I agree about not to insult but the probleem with theist is that they choose blantant blindness towars fact, while sticking to completely illogical things. Look at woody I gave her a good link on why people fight about religion, and what she did ? She used communism from nowhere to justify religion, wrongs of someone else doesnot make U right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadoma Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! God must be crazy ! http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/ripleys/database/ep_219a.html
What u blaming God for? These feet may look weird but they look mighty useful to me? Properly trained they could pick things up for sure
Singularity said: Actually I'm a guy -- but that's ok. I'm the only male in this family, and I have a daughter too. Concerning ideology and war. I understood you to say religion causes war. If we did away with it then we would do away with war. Is that not correct? Many other atheists seemingly have this opinion. I agree that some wars are religious in nature, because religion is an ideology, and ideologies cause war. For example communism is an atheistic ideology in which religion is not tolerated. Did it bring peace to the world? No -- rather it brought us the closest we've ever been to total destruction because part of the ideology says communism won't work unless the whole world is communist. They wanted their own ideological converts, and the free nations wouldn't go along with it. The point being that many atheists mistakenly believe that religion is the root of all wars. They agree that religion is the opiate of the people -- that it is not needed. But Karl Marx is the father of communism and he built a political and social system based on these very same ideologies I keep hearing from the atheists on this forum -- that doing away with religion solves the world's problems. It's a lie.
Wood dee Please show me the term 'religion' in this linked article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
Yes, because with religion gone the only thing that left to follow will be science and education, look at Canadian Muslims, they are all well educated hence they never riot. Office going people dont riot , its the uneducated and jobless that do. With strong religion we get uneducated retards like we see in Afghanistan.
I agree, the fact that Communist Russia could not get rid of Muslims and in China people are not happy for they are not free. If China gives freedom of choice to its people, I think first thing they will choose is Right to Pray in public.
Germans are well educated and they started World War II. Hitler used a twisted form of darwinism for his agenda. He exploited any form of human prejudice to advance his own cause -- particularly religious differences starting out, then ethnic differences, and finally national differences. Mental incompetents were herded off to the concentration camps because they didn't fit the "arian model." Likewise jews and homosexuals were disposed of. So in summary, the dumber ones riot because of prejudices against other nationalities and religions, and the smarter ones go to war. The root cause is the same --they blame others for their own problems. They feel they will eliminate the problems by killing off others. With that group eliminated they find a new scapegoat until finally nothing is left to blame but themselves -- then perhaps commit suicide like Hitler did. That is how human nature works.
H. sapiens is decendant of H. heidelbergensis, which itself is a decendant of H. erectus (I don't consider H. ergaster a seperate species from H. erectus, it's the result of a fad of trying to make the hominid tree look as bushy as possible). The Eurasian population of H. heidelbergensis evolved into Neandertals while the African population evolved into us. The mtDNA evidence shows that we and neandertals could not of interbred, our mtDNA lineage and thiers diverged about 500,000 ago.
