# Why didn't God design us to adapt to different geographical enviroments? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 12, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563 "2014-03-12T21:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/21 "2014-03-13T04:05:52Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > . . . Either way, I know some people really love and admire evolution but I think it sucks. It is amoral (worse than amoral since evolution invented pain, suffering and the concept of evil. To be fair I guess, evolution also invented love, mercy and joy. But negative is stronger than positive for organic life) but also inept. In a couple hundred years human technology has already created devices that are stronger, faster, sturdier, better hunters, harder to hunt, etc than anything evolution can or has created. Within 100 years our machines will be smarter than anything evolution has ever created. Compare that to the 3.8 billion year timeline of evolution. Some agreement. Evolution definitely works along horrible lines. “The lovely forms of the deer were sculpted by the teeth of wolves.” M.A. Foster. Evolution works by starvation; by predation; by epidemics; by habitat collapse. It’s a “last-man-standing” cage match of the species. It’s grossly amoral, perhaps even immoral. It (absurdly) inspired “Social Darwinism” which is unquestionably immoral. Evolutionary algorithms are an interesting way of solving certain kinds of problems, but it’s not too far removed from the “brute force” method. One fascinating experiment asked a computer simulation to “evolve” locomotion, and what came out was a weird kind of “shoveling” motion with a rear-facing piston. The piston extended and contracted, and the computer-designed-organism sort of “inched” forward. Hideous! One can hardly blame religious people for a preference for intelligent design. The forces of evolution are not intelligent, and the end results are usually bad design. (My feet and back ache terribly some days!) I don’t know of anyone who loves or admires evolution as a system of producing species. Rather, I think, many of us love and admire the end results of that process. The world’s biodiversity is beautiful, elegant, and awe-inspiring. The forms of the deer are surpassing lovely. Evolution isn’t a good idea; it’s just the law. ---
**Author:** ![JWT\_Kottekoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/22 "2014-03-13T06:32:44Z")
> [@ContentWithTomorrow](#): > > Shouldn’t evolution have created quick evolution? It has, that’s what sex is all about. Sex leads to greater variability and the survival of recessive traits that may be useful later. This was favored by evolution because it increased the chance of survival (of the traits, not necessarily the individual) under changing conditions. ---
**Author:** ![ContentWithTomorrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@ContentWithTomorrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ContentWithTomorrow)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/23 "2014-03-13T09:13:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Apparently. Either that or some third grader has hacked the board. It’s a satirical approach towards religion. ---
**Author:** ![ContentWithTomorrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@ContentWithTomorrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ContentWithTomorrow)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/24 "2014-03-13T09:20:29Z")
Another question. Are white Americans worse off than in Europe since the Native Americans were naturally darker. But Native Americans immigrated into North America from Asia so they aren’t really Native. Who In general is better of from an evolutionary perspective? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/25 "2014-03-13T10:55:09Z")
> [@ContentWithTomorrow](#): > > Another question. Are white Americans worse off than in Europe since the Native Americans were naturally darker. > > But Native Americans immigrated into North America from Asia so they aren’t really Native. Who In general is better of from an evolutionary perspective? From an evolutionary perspective, the White Americans, since they killed off most of the Native Americans, either deliberately or accidentally. “Survival of the fittest” is the only game in town, from an evolutionary perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/26 "2014-03-13T18:09:13Z")
> [@ContentWithTomorrow](#): > > It’s a satirical approach towards religion. Well, but for that to fly, surely you need to not be waxing sarcastic about the inefficiency of evolution. From the OP it looked as though you were equally unhappy with Creationism and Darwinism. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/27 "2014-03-13T19:02:45Z")
> [@ContentWithTomorrow](#): > > Assuming God exists, why didn’t he make our DNA change to the environment of the organism So African slaves would have blended in to the color of North America… Because [God supports slavery.](http://www.evilbible.com/Slavery.htm) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/28 "2014-03-13T20:34:28Z")
> [@ContentWithTomorrow](#): > > Shouldn’t evolution have created quick evolution? > [@JWT\_Kottekoe](#): > > It has, that’s what sex is all about. That’s what she said. _Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all night. 2009 memes served **hot**!_ ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/29 "2014-03-13T21:56:17Z")
> [@ContentWithTomorrow](#): > > Another question. Are white Americans worse off than in Europe since the Native Americans were naturally darker. . . . This is one of those areas where human intelligence has, to a degree, side-stepped evolution. We invented sun hats. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/30 "2014-03-14T00:21:03Z")
Actually, I think the answer is that humans _are_ able to adapt to different geographical environments. Isn’t it the case that humans and dogs have the widest environmental range of any creatures on Earth? ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/31 "2014-03-14T00:30:05Z")
Adapting immediately would be a disadvantage. Case in point, in a parallel universe, slaves were brought over from a far land, a disease hit and only the slaves survived, and then thrived, then created interdimentional travel and told me that is why God did not allow for instant evolution. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563/32 "2014-03-14T00:46:19Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Adapting immediately would be a disadvantage. Case in point, in a parallel universe, slaves were brought over from a far land, a disease hit and only the slaves survived, and then thrived, then created interdimentional travel and told me that is why God did not allow for instant evolution. Well. That clears that up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-god-design-us-to-adapt-to-different-geographical-enviroments/683563.md?page=1)