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To: Truth666
Human Beings. More precisely, Americans in the 21st Century.

The average size of Americans today is much greater than the size of humans 100 years ago. A visit to any museum, or visits by Americans to any third world country, will easily confirm this. This is a clear case of adaptation to evironment (plentiful food supply), suggesting that at least one hypothesis based on Darwin's theory is true.

Please verify, through rigorous scientific method, that the theory put forth in Genesis is the correct one. By this I mean that the order and timing of creation occurred as it says it did in Genesis.

63 posted on 02/13/2004 6:49:10 AM PST by massadvj
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To: massadvj
This is for observation only.

The Vietnamese Boat People.

Entering our country in the 70's and later with young children in tow, the children's change in diet later caused higher than normal birth weights for the next generation born in the USA. As such, it was necessary for birth to be by C-section since their hip girdle was too small for the greater size of the babies.

It appears that the second and third generation born in the USA may now have larger hip girdles for passing larger babies and C-section is not as common.

Read about the first part around 1980 and more in the later 90's.

65 posted on 02/13/2004 7:13:26 AM PST by Deguello
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To: massadvj
"Human Beings. More precisely, Americans in the 21st Century."
The average size of Americans today is much greater than the size of humans 100 years ago.

I understand what you mean (people of the same race getting taller), but the formulation isn't correct :
- human races have different average sizes (BTW, the natural habitat for the tallest and the smallest is not far from each other, in Africa), so
1 - you can't compare Americans (several races) to humans (several races)
2 - comparing Americans in the fifties to Americans now would have to consider the ethnic composition of the universum being compared
69 posted on 02/13/2004 7:33:47 AM PST by Truth666
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To: massadvj
The average size of Americans today is much greater than the size of humans 100 years ago.

Your point is correct, but your example is flawed. The changes in size among humans in the last century are attributable to improved diet.

A better example--unarguable to a creationist--is the genetic size difference between pygmies and bantus, which has ostensibly developed in the 4000-or-so years since Noah's flood.

80 posted on 02/13/2004 8:26:17 AM PST by Physicist (Sophie Rhiannon Sterner, born 1/19/2004: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1061267/posts)
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