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The human body is built for running (and Richard Dawkins develops a crack in his misotheist armor!)
Science Literature Blog ^ | October 29, 2009 | David Tyler, Ph.D.

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 ...


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To: rae4palin
"Word."

Another original thinker?

61 posted on 10/30/2009 9:47:08 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: GodGunsGuts
Because you brought it up. Sounds like you have already pickled your short-term memory right out of your brain.

OK. I'll bite. Where did I bring it up?

62 posted on 10/30/2009 9:47:14 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: rae4palin

I just experienced a one word induced chuckle. Thanks for the laugh :o)


63 posted on 10/30/2009 9:49:08 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: ColdWater

Are you saying that you didn’t bring it up?


64 posted on 10/30/2009 9:50:01 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

“To: GodGunsGuts
“Do you always get to missing people you so thoroughly oppose?”

I work with a group of very intelligent engineers. Logging in to see your thread serves to renormalize my thinking on how big the intelligence gap in the world is.

35 posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 9:23:26 PM by ColdWater”

Oh no he di’nt! He dropped the “intelligent” bomb on ya.


65 posted on 10/30/2009 9:51:59 PM PDT by rae4palin
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To: ColdWater
"Well, if your performance on FR is any indication, someone is severely wasting their money."

It looks like GGG has found yet another person to belittle in the name of sweet baby Jesus. Don't take it too personally, its probably just compensation for some personal deficiency or transgressions.

66 posted on 10/30/2009 9:54:23 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law; GodGunsGuts
Don't take it too personally,

No problem. We go way back. He even dedicated a thread to me once a while back! AFAIK, that was the first one he dedicated.

I shouldn't have said that. Now he is going to dedicate every thread to someone else!

67 posted on 10/30/2009 9:58:03 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: GodGunsGuts
Are you saying that you didn’t bring it up?

I didn't say that. I said please refresh my memory.

68 posted on 10/30/2009 9:58:54 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: rae4palin
Ironic, isn't it?


69 posted on 10/30/2009 10:00:10 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Natural Law; GodGunsGuts

He is probably a little irritated that I have stopped calling him “Bro”. Nothing personal, I have been working a little too much and slacked off on the personal stuff but I will try to be a little more sociable.


70 posted on 10/30/2009 10:01:06 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: GodGunsGuts

“Get a life!”


71 posted on 10/30/2009 10:02:27 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: GodGunsGuts

Sorry. I meant to say, “Get a life!” Bro.


72 posted on 10/30/2009 10:03:05 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: ColdWater

No refreshments for you. You really need to take better care of the few remaining teeth in your mouth.


73 posted on 10/30/2009 10:03:18 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Arthur McGowan
do we not hang from our toes because we can’t?

Although it seems unlikely to me that I could, it is even less likely I'll ever be completely sure.

74 posted on 10/30/2009 10:03:20 PM PDT by KarinG1 (Please excuse any grammatical errors, as I was slobbering mad when I posted this.)
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To: ColdWater
" He even dedicated a thread to me once a while back!"

Poor old fool probably doesn't realize he is actually driving people away from his position by his demeanor and belligerence. Does any sane or rational person believe that is what God wants?

75 posted on 10/30/2009 10:03:40 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: ColdWater

It’s too late to find you data. But I can give you a very quick bit of reasoning.

two legs are more efficient than 4. A human foot is the most efficient foot in existence. (hopping bipeds have very efficient leg sinews...ie kangaroos and such)

straight legs are more efficient than bent legs. A straight legs resists gravity(at rest not in motion) primarily by compression forces resisted by bone...NO ENERGY EXPENDITURES REQUIRED. A bent leg resists gravity by way of continuous tension forces in muscles that resist bending of the bent joints.

A human being is essentially a pole sitting atop two pole like legs. A quadruped is essentially a beam held up by two crooked poles at each end of the beam. The beam is held straight by constant muscle action, and the 4 crooked poles are held up by constant muscle action. Muscle action IS CONSTANT CALORIC CONSUMPTION.

Humans have more stored body fat as a percentage of body weight than do horses.

In a death march between a human and a horse, the human would choose a speed slow enough to take advantage of his “at rest” efficiency advantage over bent leg quadrupeds. Also, a human’s ability to carry small amounts of food and water on his back or around his neck is a huge advantage. Maybe that’s cheating, but a human has the ability to cheat. A horse does not.

So the death march becomes a starvation contest in which the human is permitted a small amount of cheating and the horse is not...and the human has a more efficient body structure...and the human has more fat stores.

It’s no contest.


76 posted on 10/30/2009 10:04:03 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: mamelukesabre
It’s too late to find you data.

Dismissed.

77 posted on 10/30/2009 10:05:57 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: ColdWater

Tellya what smartass...

Go find me data that I’m wrong.

Til then, “dismissed”.


78 posted on 10/30/2009 10:09:59 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: mamelukesabre
Tellya what smartass... Go find me data that I’m wrong. Til then, “dismissed”.

Ha ha. is that the best you have?

79 posted on 10/30/2009 10:12:30 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: Natural Law; GodGunsGuts
Poor old fool probably doesn't realize he is actually driving people away from his position by his demeanor and belligerence. Does any sane or rational person believe that is what God wants?

He sure is trying to drive me away.

80 posted on 10/30/2009 10:13:41 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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