Category: philosophy/religion topics
Here is another article from the site that I recently discover.
As I travel to different places of the world, I noticed not only the difference in skin colors, but also, the shape of nose, the shape of the eyes, the
height, and the hair of people in four continents of the earth that I have reached.
I am a man of many questions in my mind because I am a keen observer of almost everything that I have been privileged to see. I believe my curiosity is
one of the factors that led me to a deeper search of truth that I satisfactorily found in the Bible.
If the entire human race came from one family, why is it possible that there are races that stand taller than others having eyes, noses, and hair very much
different from another?
The answer to these questions is very well elucidated both in the Bible and in Science. Biblically, the ordinary human can produce ‘giants’.
(Genesis 6:2-4) That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said,
My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth
in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men
which were of old, men of renown.
The cross-breeding of the sons of God with the daughters of men produced these giants!
Scientifically, giants or men of extra-ordinary height and size can be caused by what is called pituitary growth hormone excess, also known as “pituitary
gigantism”.
The human body is an adaptable organism. It can adapt even to extremes in the environment. This ability to adapt itself to a given environment helps in
the ‘shaping’ of his physical body. It can be noted that there are places where natives are noticeably with long protruding noses, while the opposite is
very much apparent in other places of the globe.
Quick Facts:
Climate clearly has put its imprint on the tint of our skin, the size of our noses, and other physical traits…
…Amid such discussions, however, a consensus exists that climate has influenced the evolution of the human physique.
Skin color, for example, is determined largely by the amount of melanin, a dark pigment, in the outer layer of the skin. (Carotene imparts a yellow tint.)
In sunny climates close to the Equator, natural selection has favored dark, melanin-rich skin, which protects its owner by absorbing harmful ultraviolet
rays before they penetrate to lower layers. But some ultraviolet light must penetrate the skin so that the body can produce Vitamin D. Thus, at higher
latitudes, where sunlight is less intense, pale skin with little melanin is the norm.
Among dark-skinned people, moreover, there are great variations in skin color. The drawback of dark skin is that, like dark cloth, it absorbs more heat
from the sun than does lighter skin. In prehistory, anthropologists explain, those who roamed the savannah “traded off” some protection from ultraviolet
rays for the reduced heat retention of lighter skin. For forest-dwellers, living in less extreme heat, a darker complexion was an evolutionary advantage.
Again very interesting.