I've heard apocryphal tales of people being born without pinky toes --- the evolutionists might say that this is a remnant that is no longer needed.
Pray tell, how does that work?
Even if one were to admit natural selection (which may work on a small, micro-scale, e.g., birds with longer beaks to retrieve food, or reptiles being better able to survive if they're invisible to predators), there would have to be some advantage to not having pinky toes, that people without pinky toes are more attractive mates, that they have better survival skills, and so on. That is nonsense.
If there is any evolution at all among humans, it would (or so it seems to me anyway) depend more on the relative attractiveness of males and fertile females to each other, and for the "highest-quality" people to seek out and find one another, so that succeeding generations are stronger, more attractive, and so on.
You can see this happening to some extent with both taboos against interracial marriage, and greater accessibility of the races to one another. Some white women simply cannot respond favorably to any man unless he is black --- my theory on this, is that it is not only perceived sɛҳuąƖ prowess (and other things), but a general perception that black men are more "purely masculine", stronger, better able to protect their women, and possess massive reserves of "self-confidence", whether they have a reason to be "self-confident" or not. (And why wouldn't they be self-confident? Everything in our society tells them that they hung the moon!) Likewise, many black men prefer white women because of a sense of "we can now finally have what was kept away from us", they are not as hard to please or to get along with as black women are (who can be pretty brassy, to hear them tell it, they've had to be), and black men tend to be more forgiving of size. (For some reason, they gravitate towards fat redheads. Interesting preference.)
There is a similar phenomenon with white men and Asian women. As with black men/white women, it's a symbiotic thing. Asian women like white men because they are perceived as being "more masculine", the men treat them better, and appreciate them more. Many white men prefer Asian women --- indeed, as with the black men/white women thing, some white men simply cannot entertain the thought of having anyone but an Asian woman --- because they are more petite, more delicate, more feminine, and not as hard to get along with, as white women are. As a white man, I can definitely see this, though my understanding is that Asian women (Chinese women, anyway) like to control the family finances --- no woman would ever "give me an allowance", I'd have stayed single for life first! --- and their extended families are extremely important to them. (I acknowledge that these are generalizations, and exceptions can and do exist. Yet exceptions always just prove the rule, otherwise they wouldn't be exceptions.)
I hope I haven't departed too far from the thread, but I'm just trying to illustrate how there can be variations in the human "species" over time, but that they owe more to psychological, sɛҳuąƖ, and interpersonal realities, than to raw physical skills needed for survival and advantage in the material world.
Topic: If Evolution, then why ZERO evidence of mankind evolving? (Read 2980 times)