I don’t know if you could call it evolution, but humans have certainly changed over time.
When I was in Germany, I toured a lot of castles. Almost all of them had an “armory” full of weapons and armor. What I noticed as I walked around those castles was:
- I had to stoop through most inner doors (not the grand entryways) and I’m 6’2”.
- The weapons and suits of armor (designed for their warriors, their bad-asses) would best fit a early teenager today.
So, maybe it’s due to improved diet, medicine or whatever - we have definitely changed from once average Germans. I’m not saying we changed from one species to another different species, but is it fair to say we have “evolved” (in some sense of the word) within our species? And I also believe we evolve/adapt because our creator knitted that ability into the very fabric of our design.
“I don’t know if you could call it evolution ...”
That is not evolution in any sense of the word, as understood by anyone on any side of the debate over evolution. Vietnamese immigrants to the U.S. see their children towering over them due to changed nutrition and medical care in their formative years. American colonists were taller than their British cousins after only a generation because of more and better food. They did not evolve in one generation. Americans have become far heavier in just the last 35 years, and that is not evolution.
Elegantly stated.
There are STILL PLENTY of short people.....I'm one of them.....and there are super tall people.....I think God made ALL people as different human beings...period.
Why then did it virtually disappear shortly after the battle of Agincourt?
It fell out of favor because there weren't enough people strong enough for its 100=120 lb. draw. The Little Ice Age had begun and growing enough food in Britain got a lot more difficult. As a result, people were not as large and strong.
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Actually the evidence says that men are getting shorter, not taller.
Germans are a short stocky bunch. (I hope my wife doesn’t read this)
One possible explanation, though not necessarily true, is that normal humans have interbred with the Nephilim over the centuries.
On a related note, I recently went through the Napoleonic section of Les Invalides, the French military museum in Paris. Much more recent military uniforms (not suits of armor) for the French Imperial Guards Grenadiers, c. 1812, same thing. I commented at the time that the 14 and 15 year olds in my neighborhood wouldn’t fit into those uniforms.