Evolution balances childbearing women
14 December 2007
One of the most challenging questions to ever come across the desks in the scientific community has had some light shed on it today. What question is that you ask? It is, of course, "Why are pregnant women more comfortable when leaning back?" According to research done at Harvard, over the past few million years woman have evolved flexibility in their lower spine to help them be more comfortable when on two feet. This news brings hope to overweight males across the globe that suffer from the 'beer belly' or 'spare tire'. With human evolution speeding up there is no telling when men will achieve this new adaptation, after all, every man I know got at least half of his genes from a woman.
Something this article did forget to mention is the other billion things that happens during childbearing that have have to work exactly right to have both the mother and child survive. One of them for example is how at the time of birth the placenta that is attached to the mother by major artery and is full of blood manages to remove its self and heal almost immediately. This separation is the largest traumatic wound that anyone has ever survived from and it happens a million times a day because your body is able to repair its self (Check Origins TV episode called Fearfully and Wonderfully Made).
The article talks about the brain size but not how the brain forms. Two cells packed with more information than an encyclopedia that are so small you can barely see them create a fully functional human in 9 months. Any one that has kids knows they grow fast but in the first few months they grow the fastest when they go from 0 to 18" with trillions of cells (tiny factories) replicating themselves at incredible speed. How many factories that man has built can duplicate themselves?
The last line in the article is almost directly quoting Genesis 3:16. "... and pregnant females were forced to cope with the discomfort of childbearing while foraging for food and escaping from predators.?
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;
1. Childbearing is difficult
2. Womens bodies are built for it
3. It's all because of sin... not evolution
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/12.13/13-fetalload.html
