If natural selection were true humans in the tropics would have silver, reflective skin to help them keep cool, but they don't. They have black skin, just the opposite of what the theory of natural selection would predict.
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And how many naturally metallic-silver, reflective creatures does this guy see running around in the world? Because I have to say that I've never seen one -- not even in National Geographic, and I think they've taken pictures of everything living. These people make me so, so sad.
So this is what "profoundly ignorant" looks like.
It's peculiar that black have an enhanced resistance to skin cancer and the short, curly hair on the top of their head allows for a buffer of cool air on the skull as opposed to straight hair which has a nasty tendency to retain heat. Just as the Inuit (Eskimos to people who don't know any better) have extra capillaries and straight hair which seems better suited to trappping warm air. Please try again, Roman.
The fun "silver skin" quote is secondary, originally coming from a linked page.
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I'm thinking, you know, how the dark skin thing is not quite a perfect system and all... almost as if turned out that a chance mutation for higher melanin content in the skin cells was beneficial to survival... really, the fact that it's imperfect is more proof FOR evolution than against it. If there were perfect intelligent design, no doubt humans WOULD have wonderful magical reflective skin.
"So was god black, or white? I'm confussed."
Neither, I'm pretty sure he has this magic silver skin that Roman's insisting on.
Actually, that's what YOU predicted. People who live in climates near the equator who get more sun have darker skin not because of the light / heat conspiracy, but because of a compound called melotonin, which is a naturally-produced sunblock. Us Caucasians, evolving in naturally lower-UV areas, have less melotonin and paler skin.
Someday we'll all probably be really pale, because we spend all our time indoors, or tan because some people think that looks cool.
I think the idea of black people having silver skin under the black would be neat, kind of like a superhero thing.
Can I have gold underneath my pink peeled-lobster look?
um...ever heard of melanin? Also, there's a reason we sweat in hot weather. I'll let you look that one up. It'll do you good. Hint: keeping cool.
I'm older and have had 2 pre-cancerous lesions taken off. Use sunscreen.
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would you believe that people in the tropics are born white, but exposure to the bright sun turns them dark in a short time ?
did I mention that I have a bridge for sale cheap ?
“If natural selection were true humans in the tropics would have silver, reflective skin to help them keep cool,”
“but they don't. They have black skin, just the opposite of what the theory of natural selection would predict.”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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