Posted on 10/30/2009 7:49:53 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Alongside all the public interest in sporting prowess, recent research has added significantly to our knowledge of how the human body actually works. Many characteristics we take for granted now appear to be critical success factors. Take, for example, our toes. We do not need long toes, like monkeys and apes, because our toes are not used for grasping branches. But are they vestigial - withered remnants of once-grand appendages? The answer is: most definitely not! Whilst it is possible to walk comfortably with longer toes, running is different. Increase toe length by just 20% and there is a doubling of the peak digital flexor impulses and the mechanical work required.
It emerges that the human body has numerous traits that all support the ability to run...
(Excerpt) Read more at arn.org ...
Add to that man’s prowess as a pack animal, and his communication skills, and his tools...you have a creature that is nearly a deity in comparison to the rest of the animal kingdom. I’m referring to primitive man. present day man probably is a deity in comparison to the rest of the animal kingdom.
Dogs/wolves are second place. I would put lions in third place. They are pack critters but they lack endurance. They seem to make up for it with pure physical power and lightning speed over short distances.
The day that man teamed up with dogs sealed the fate of lions.
And if we can only connect up with sharks that have friggin' LASER beams coming out of their heads, we will rule the world!
Oh, wait ...
He watched the man-animals coming and going and moving about the camp. In fashion distantly resembling the way men look upon the gods they create, so looked White Fang upon the man-animals before him. They were superior creatures, of a verity, gods.
To his dim comprehension they were as much wonder-workers as gods are to men. They were creatures of mastery, possessing all manner of unknown and impossible potencies, overlords of the alive and the not alive - making obey that which moved, imparting movement to that which did not move, and making life, sun-coloured and biting life, to grow out of dead moss and wood.
They were fire-makers! They were gods.
Jack London, "White Fang"
You don't have to able to outrun the tiger, only one slower member of your pack.
With my luck, in my pack I’d be voted off the island.
Well, even if the earth is only 6000 years old, that's a lot more time than the engineers took. And since development actually had millions of years, is it any wonder such advancement could take place on "trial and error"?
None to me. But then, I have an appreciation for the time that has gone by. Time for mountains to rise up, and for them then to wear down and become deposits in the sea.
Time for the seas to give way to dry land again. Time for grand and glorious lakes like Bonneville to surrender their living wealth and become the dry dusty bones of salt in the desert of Utah.
And time for nature, ever-experimenting nature, to playfully adjust the length of toes and fingers, arms and legs, of myriads of creatures for whom she had no other love than to spew them out to see what funny antics they might produce, like a child with a toy top, winding it and throwing it, just to watch it spin.
Time, then, for a few species of misshapen apes to stand and look out upon the savannahs and ocean shores, and to wonder and dream.
Time for many trials, and many errors. Time to make little changes, and to spin again.
That would be great! Thank you.
I love your post...sums it up so well, so beautifully, capturing both the grandeur and absurdity of nature and time.
Thank you! Too many of us, in contemplating the awe and majesty of the Universe, get very caught up in the awe, and forget to be inspired by the majesty.
In looking at the vastness of endless expanse, we are too often shrunken to insignificance by it.
That isn’t correct. We are among the most precious objects in existence, for we are able to appreciate it.
That gives us significance. When this old Earth becomes a dying ember, our art and our music will still be spreading out among the stars, proclaiming visions of joy and glory.
You’re on, and welcome aboard the HMS Creation ping list!
All the best—GGG
I’ll do it for you. I have a circular saw.
I don’t understand your post?
I don’t understand why you have me listed as zero. I have stated that I like GGG on News/Activism. That way I get to see more of him.
That was with a rider! Do you know any person that can cover that distance in 31 days? By your strategy (slow slow walk) one might cover 12 miles per day.
Dismissed.
I don't make fun of FReepers. If you think so, it is you that is making fun of yourself.
What stealth post?
Lots of words and opinions. Not data. Dismissed.
More words and opinions for your perusal and dismissal at posts 127 and 130.
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