Inside a Bible Belt Classroom

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The last line of this video is priceless.

Actually, the "Out Of Africa" hypothesis would suggest that "ar differnt skeeins" resulted from black people evolving lighter skins in response to the reduced solar radiation of more northerly latitudes. Wonder how them good ol' boys'd lak thayut.

These are future leaders of America (or at least the GOP).

Yeah, I know but, on the bright side, I'll probably be dead by then.

John

[hillbilly]

[QUOTE=Boreas;32594]Actually, the "Out Of Africa" hypothesis would suggest that "ar differnt skeeins" resulted from black people evolving lighter skins in response to the reduced solar radiation of more northerly latitudes. Wonder how them good ol' boys'd lak thayut.


I'll tell how this good ole boy likes that. He knows better. Show me one fuckin' WHITE man in Africa thats EVOLVING black. We are different, plain and simple. We are all different for a reason. Why? How bout because it's the way God wanted it.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Show me one fuckin' WHITE man in Africa thats EVOLVING black. We are different, plain and simple. We are all different for a reason. Why? How bout because it's the way God wanted it.

You don't get a white man "evolving" from white to black or black to white during his lifetime. What you get is populations who live in a particular area changing very gradually over centuries and thousands of years in response to the environment they live in. If large populations of white people moved back to Central Africa or some other tropical locale and stayed there as a discrete breeding population they eventually would develop darker skin. It would take eons though.

Since we're talking about skin color, I'll give you a simplified version of how that works. Human evolution occurred in Africa. That's pretty much undisputed by those who subscribe to evolutionary theory. So, while in Africa, humans - or their prehuman ancestors - developed (evolved) darker skin as a protection against the intense sunlight of the tropics. This protected them (us) from things like skin cancer and just plain old sunburn.

Now, when humans began moving north out of Africa as the Ice Age ended, (this took thousands of years), they found themselves living in areas where solar radiation was far less intense (because of the curvature of the earth). That meant our dark skin was no longer an adaptive advantage for our new environment. In fact, it was a disadvantage. For example, our dark skin inhibited the production of vitamin D, easy to produce in the tropics but much harder in Europe or Asia. Also, the dark pigment in our skin is genetically linked to sickle cell anemia. (Evolution ain't always perfect.) In Africa it was a worthwhile trade-off but not in Europe and Asia. So, what happened is people living in more northerly areas began over time to develop lighter skin because it worked better in their new environment.

In any population there is variation from individual to individual in many many ways. Some of us have lighter or darker skin coloration, even within the same "race". If it turns out that darker skin pigment confers a survival advantage, as it does in the tropics, those with the darker skin will have an easier time of it. That means they'll end up being healthier and stronger and better able to acquire a mate and pass on their genes to the next generation.

So, as these darker skinned people enjoy greater breeding success that means the characteristics of the population will change over time to include more and more people with darker and darker skin until a point is reached where the population as a whole possesses the characteristics that best suit them to their environment.

John

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Now, when humans began moving north out of Africa as the Ice Age ended,

which ice age?

[hillbilly]

Boreas, forgive me for my last quote. It sounded rude. Sorry bout that.


Help me make some sense out of this though. According to my figures, people haven't had all these thousands and thousands of years to evolve. Bible is complex, and ya'll know by now it's alot for me to try to take in with poor learning skills, but, from what I 'think' I understand is man is only 2,000 years old since the flood. Even originating in one place and then migrating to new lands, wouldn't we still speak the same language we spoke before splitting up? How many different languages were called aboard the ark? Alot to me doesn't make very much sense.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Help me make some sense out of this though. According to my figures, people haven't had all these thousands and thousands of years to evolve. Bible is complex, and ya'll know by now it's alot for me to try to take in with poor learning skills, but, from what I 'think' I understand is man is only 2,000 years old since .

We need to ask Sarah!

She says man and dinosaurs walked earth together, just like in the movies and dinosaurs go back millions of years.

This guy Dr. Kent Hovind real real smart, like Sarah!
Here he explains it to us just like Sarah would.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2951687298593#

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by noonereal

We need to ask Sarah!

She says man and dinosaurs walked earth together, just like in the movies and dinosaurs go back millions of years.

If humans and dinosaurs didn't coexist then how did Fred Flintstone get any work done?

John

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by noonereal

We need to ask Sarah!

She says man and dinosaurs walked earth together, just like in the movies and dinosaurs go back millions of years.

This guy Dr. Kent Hovind real real smart, like Sarah!
Here he explains it to us just like Sarah would.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...2951687298593#

OMG, the Christian Right never ceases to amaze. At least this friggin' moron has been locked up for a decade before he can brainwash more gullible goobers.

And we think the Taliban's crazy. His kind in our midst frightens me more than any Middle Eastern cave-dweller.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

And we think the Taliban's crazy. His kind in our midst frightens me more than any Middle Eastern cave-dweller.

But, John, that's why God gave us nukes, B2s, smart bombs and Predator drones. So that our crazies can do even more damage than their crazies when the religious warfare shit finally hits the heavenly fan. We're on the road to glory, my brother, and the tour guides are a bunch of whacko cult zealots with nuclear aspirations, spurred on by the voices in their heads and their unshakable love of the Celestial Tooth Fairy.

Geez, get with the program, son!

Dave

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by finnbow

And we think the Taliban's crazy. His kind in our midst frightens me more than any Middle Eastern cave-dweller.

that is exactly how I feel. To see these young adults "learning" from him is frightful and also very sad.