Olympic 100 metres

[Preme]

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. The modern scientific view is that humans far from developing better physicality are 'devolving' due to our less stressful, more sedentary lives.

As we no longer have to hunt for our food and cover great distances each day, as we now live in cities full of pollutants and toxins, as we live increasingly sedentary lives our evolutionary scientists believe we are deteriotating physically not improving.

You clearly have no idea of how evolution works. If you go and look at scientific papers and thesis describing how humans will look in the future we are heading in the opposite direction because we no longer need to be so physcially active to live our lifestyles.

When we can get our dinner off a super market shelf and our water from a tap 5 meters from our lounge why on earth would our bodies evolve and adapt to become physically more able?

The eact opposite effect is occuring, and that's ACCORDING TO SCIENCE!!!

dude science goes back on it's self all the time - you say we are deteriotating? how? what proof is there of that? the average hight still increases, physical records keep getting broken, sure there are new things out there to kill us, mainly coz we let to many 3rd worlders in our countries to spread the shit.

and fuck man i work a full time job lol i don't got time to be fannying about looking up papers on every topic i wanna talk about when im bored and out of vodka, come on buddy

The average height is only increasing in the Western World and in the last couple hundred years as a direct result of diet Preme. Evolution supposedly occurs over tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years there is simply no way for evolution to evolve better people in just a couple hundred years, I repeat better Olympic performance has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with evolution and any scientist would agree with me, God has nothing to do with it, it's just evolution doesn't work that way.

Furthermore evolution doesn't mean that things improve and get better, it means that organisms adapt and change in response to enviromental factors so that the organism is best suited to its enviroment.

The best and fittest humans lived thousands of years ago. Neanderthal man was more muscular, had bigger brains ( bigger cranial capacity), better coordination and were physcially stronger than us. They needed to be because they lived in a very harsh enviroment.

In todays world each race is suited to their enviroment. Blacks are more muscular, have less bodyfat and more more stamina endurance than whites to cope with the harsher living conditions in Africa. These changes took thousands of years however which is why African Americans are still black after a few generations living in the US and why white generations of people stay white in South Africa for example, these changes take a long time.

In the Western world we are not evolving better physical bodies as we simply do not need them. Why in the world would an organism evolve and adapt in a way in which was completely opposite to the needs of its enviroment?

If there was a holocaust and man once again had to brave harsh enviroments, make long journeys for food, shelter and safety and lived in a physically harsh enviroment then humans would adapt accordingly. Whilst we live in an enviroment of plenty, where there are no predators, no physical demands upon our bodies like in times past then we simply will not evolve better and more physically stronger bodies.

dude you got way to much time on your hands lol, get a job or a hobbie, or sumin lol

[Kev]

dude science goes back on it's self all the time - you say we are deteriotating? how? what proof is there of that? the average hight still increases, physical records keep getting broken, sure there are new things out there to kill us, mainly coz we let to many 3rd worlders in our countries to spread the shit.

and fuck man i work a full time job lol i don't got time to be fannying about looking up papers on every topic i wanna talk about when im bored and out of vodka, come on buddy

The average height is only increasing in the Western World and in the last couple hundred years as a direct result of diet Preme. Evolution supposedly occurs over tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years there is simply no way for evolution to evolve better people in just a couple hundred years, I repeat better Olympic performance has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with evolution and any scientist would agree with me, God has nothing to do with it, it's just evolution doesn't work that way.

Furthermore evolution doesn't mean that things improve and get better, it means that organisms adapt and change in response to enviromental factors so that the organism is best suited to its enviroment.

The best and fittest humans lived thousands of years ago. Neanderthal man was more muscular, had bigger brains ( bigger cranial capacity), better coordination and were physcially stronger than us. They needed to be because they lived in a very harsh enviroment.

In todays world each race is suited to their enviroment. Blacks are more muscular, have less bodyfat and more more stamina endurance than whites to cope with the harsher living conditions in Africa. These changes took thousands of years however which is why African Americans are still black after a few generations living in the US and why white generations of people stay white in South Africa for example, these changes take a long time.

In the Western world we are not evolving better physical bodies as we simply do not need them. Why in the world would an organism evolve and adapt in a way in which was completely opposite to the needs of its enviroment?

If there was a holocaust and man once again had to brave harsh enviroments, make long journeys for food, shelter and safety and lived in a physically harsh enviroment then humans would adapt accordingly. Whilst we live in an enviroment of plenty, where there are no predators, no physical demands upon our bodies like in times past then we simply will not evolve better and more physically stronger bodies.

dude you got way to much time on your hands lol, get a job or a hobbie, or sumin lol

Well I don't have to work and reading about science is a hobby. I'm a well educated man I can't help it if I'm cleverer than you

[Doot]

can there be 'devolving' ? because it would still be the next step in the evolution line so it would have to be evolving just into a lesser being or something like that.

[Kev]

can there be 'devolving' ? because it would still be the next step in the evolution line so it would have to be evolving just into a lesser being or something like that.

Yes you are correct I was merely using the term to explain that evolution doesn't mean getting bigger and stronger, it means adapting to fit your enviroment, and this can actually mean getting smaller and weaker if necessary.

Size, strength, etc are not examples of progression, and we are certainly not evolving to be physically stronger and better, that's simply not happening.

Firstly according to the evolutionary timescale such changes would take tens of thousands of years and secondly we would be evolving in response to our enviroment and our enviroment,especially in the West hardly requires us to be any fitter and stronger than in times past, in fact it's the complete opposite.

[Gandalf]

I havent followed track and field in years. I used to watch a lot sport but there is no coverage in my part of the world. Instead I get mens volleyball and table tennis.

Im glad the Olympics are going to be on at a decent time so I can actually try and watch some of the events live. I didnt watch a single game of the European Chamionships. Time difference was just too much.

[Dizaster]

can there be 'devolving' ? because it would still be the next step in the evolution line so it would have to be evolving just into a lesser being or something like that.

I think 'devolving' could probably be when like, a deer's antlers grow big to attract femals,,, but then the females keep rooting all the deers with the biggest antlers, and eventually the antlers grow to big for the deer to reach the ground to eat, and dies, so that would be bad.... mabe then after a long time they would have to go backwards and the women would find smaller antlers sexier... but then, that would be evolving still....

pretend i didn't start talking

[ICB]

Bilbo you for certain know what your talking about my friend have some rep, i learnt alot from just reading your posts there.

[HattonTheHammer]

The olympics is completely flawed if you ask me

you can train all your life, be the strongest physical athlete in modern sport and win a gold medal you worked all your life towards.

On the other hand you can have a decent shot or be a good angler and win 5 individual golds in different classes and categorys

[amat]

Tyson Gay injured and carted off the track today

[HattonTheHammer]

The olympics is completely flawed if you ask me

you can train all your life, be the strongest physical athlete in modern sport and win a gold medal you worked all your life towards.

On the other hand you can have a decent shot or be a good angler and win 5 individual golds in different classes and categorys

[Preme]

The average height is only increasing in the Western World and in the last couple hundred years as a direct result of diet Preme. Evolution supposedly occurs over tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years there is simply no way for evolution to evolve better people in just a couple hundred years, I repeat better Olympic performance has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with evolution and any scientist would agree with me, God has nothing to do with it, it's just evolution doesn't work that way.

Furthermore evolution doesn't mean that things improve and get better, it means that organisms adapt and change in response to enviromental factors so that the organism is best suited to its enviroment.

The best and fittest humans lived thousands of years ago. Neanderthal man was more muscular, had bigger brains ( bigger cranial capacity), better coordination and were physcially stronger than us. They needed to be because they lived in a very harsh enviroment.

In todays world each race is suited to their enviroment. Blacks are more muscular, have less bodyfat and more more stamina endurance than whites to cope with the harsher living conditions in Africa. These changes took thousands of years however which is why African Americans are still black after a few generations living in the US and why white generations of people stay white in South Africa for example, these changes take a long time.

In the Western world we are not evolving better physical bodies as we simply do not need them. Why in the world would an organism evolve and adapt in a way in which was completely opposite to the needs of its enviroment?

If there was a holocaust and man once again had to brave harsh enviroments, make long journeys for food, shelter and safety and lived in a physically harsh enviroment then humans would adapt accordingly. Whilst we live in an enviroment of plenty, where there are no predators, no physical demands upon our bodies like in times past then we simply will not evolve better and more physically stronger bodies.

dude you got way to much time on your hands lol, get a job or a hobbie, or sumin lol

Well I don't have to work and reading about science is a hobby. I'm a well educated man I can't help it if I'm cleverer than you

so you are cleverer than me? you define that coz u have no ob and have all the free time to read science papers?

I'm curious, be cause you are "cleverer" why don't you have to work?

[Kev]

dude you got way to much time on your hands lol, get a job or a hobbie, or sumin lol

Well I don't have to work and reading about science is a hobby. I'm a well educated man I can't help it if I'm cleverer than you

so you are cleverer than me? you define that coz u have no ob and have all the free time to read science papers?

I'm curious, be cause you are "cleverer" why don't you have to work?

Well the fact you spell 'because' as two seperate words doesn't help your case I'll assume spelling 'job' as 'ob' was just a typo.

I havn't worked since I was 24, a decade now. I got diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease and had 5 tumours in all. I had a bone marrow transplant and have been in remission ever since but the extensive chemo and radiotherapy treatment left me with badly damaged lungs and a broken body.


I've been on the sick ever since and lead a productive life consisting mostly of posting here on Saddo, reading, playing chess and wanking to internet pornography. It's a tough life but someone has to do it

[CutMeMick]

I'm a sports guys period.

I love competition and I just enjoy whethe 2 teams or just 1 on 1 competing.

Really looking forward to the Olympics.

Also for those who have HBO, they've been showing Bud Greenspans look back at Olympics as he recaps some of the most memorable moments in Olympic history. Love those shows...