Posted on 11/18/2004 11:56:04 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Humanity was born to run.
Humanity was born to run.
More than by brain size or tool-making ability, the human species was set apart from its ancestors by the ability to jog mile after lung-stabbing mile with greater endurance than any other primate, according to research published today in the journal Nature.
Indeed, human beings evolved as the cross-country stars of a primordial runner's world 2 million years before the advent of jogging shoes, tracksuits and arthroscopic knee surgery.
Mounting a challenge to the conventional wisdom about human origins, researchers at Harvard University and the University of Utah concluded that the ability to run long distances was the driving force shaping the modern human anatomy.
Such running ability could have given early humans a survival edge in scavenging on the open savannas of Africa.
The earliest humans, the researchers said, were marathon men and women from the tips of their distinctively short toes and long Achilles tendons to the tops of their biomechanically balanced heads.
"We have gone all this time somehow missing this truly important aspect of humans — this [long-distance running] behavior and its impact on the design of the human body," said University of Utah biologist Dennis Bramble, who co-wrote the study.
"Primates don't do distance running," Bramble said. "We should have recognized that humans are very odd."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Jesus said to go the extra mile.....
I do not believe that I evolved from an ape or a fish or an amoeba. If you prefer to believe that, fine. I believe God created us in His image. Period.
That's fine. You just need to realize that your belief is purely irrational.
No serious person believes we evolved from an ape. As far as evolving from an amoeba or fish, can you show in empirical terms how this happened?
Does this mean the French are the highest form of humanity?
What we have determined through our discussion and study of scripture is that in the area of our soul and our potential for goodness as beings is where we find our likeness to our heavenly father - our souls being what God cares for and how God would see us. Looking at it as though we do look similar to God creates images of God, something we are definitely warned against. Our thinking we look like God is likely to be a big mistake. We can not compare to God in any way other than our remote chance of having a small bit of the goodness that God posseses in infinite quantity.
Seeking truth with sincerity..
Jesus said nothing about evolution.
My conscience (on that score) is as clear as can be.
P.s., as a Catholic, I think St. Augustine had the right attitude wrt Biblical interpretation.
thats a good one!
Precisely right.
From the Sir Mix-A-Lot school of evolution and selective breeding.
Darwinism and evolutionism IS religion and has been since its beginnings in the 19th century, they just won't admit it.
Words of wisdom.
Sme basic content different source and title..... the LA Times wanted to claim it as their own "reporter researched article" ....
It goes back further than that - See Origen, Augustine, and Aquinas wrt reason and faith.
Darwin and evolution really only deserve to be a footnote in the greater questions.
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