Thursday, August 04, 2005
Why Do Men Have Nipples?
When we talk about intelligent design, we have to talk about why men have nipples. Did men at one time have mammary glands and suckle their offspring? If they did, that's encouraging. Even men know that they are pretty useless. Men are currently needed for reproduction, but as soon as science finds an alternative, they are going the way of the DoDo. I guess I could talk about why an intelligent designer would have even made men, but I digress.
It is interesting how these discussions often lead to some deep and profound thoughts. For example, the Old Testament says God made Adam first. Do you think Adam had nipples? Since Eve wasn't in the picture yet, maybe the plan was for Adam to reproduce asexually (asexual reproduction is definitely a future TUD) and would therefore need breasts and nipples to suckle his children. Then when God made Eve, he realized that breasts look better on women so he took them off of Adam and put them on Eve. Leaving Adam with nipples was just an oversight. Well, it could have happened that way. Have you got a better explanation? Anyway you look at it, nipples on men does not imply an intelligent designer.
While we are thinking about the Garden of Eden, why do we still have snakes and apples? You'd have thought they would have been banished to the nether world. Instead, we've got snakes everywhere and apples are now associated with motherhood.
Sometimes I just don't understand and my head starts hurting. Which makes me think, why do we have headaches?
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Oh! I read a theory to explain why men exist!!!!
Sexual reproduction results in greater genetic diversity in offspring. This tends to result in better resistance to disease because the disease organisms need to adapt to a large number of different permutations of the individuals in a species.
So, despite the dead weight involved in having males, once sexual reproduction existed, it was favored over asexual reproduction.
This does not explain why men have nipples.
Sexual reproduction results in greater genetic diversity in offspring. This tends to result in better resistance to disease because the disease organisms need to adapt to a large number of different permutations of the individuals in a species.
So, despite the dead weight involved in having males, once sexual reproduction existed, it was favored over asexual reproduction.
This does not explain why men have nipples.
I suspect a cabal of female scientists is secretly working on a way to reproduce using the genetic material from two females. When they succeed, men will indeed be dead weight.
In the earliest life forms, all reproduction was asexual. All life was, essentially, female (bet the religions love that!) sexual reproduction was an advantageous mutation.
It is patently true that the inclusion of different genetic material to one's own enhances the offsprings natural defences.
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It is patently true that the inclusion of different genetic material to one's own enhances the offsprings natural defences.
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