creationists and/or geneticists: is 4-6thousand years really enough to breed people who cant even grow beards?

Question

or if people started out non-hairy, is there enough time to breed people with hairy backs, or beards that reach waist length or considering the contrast between the pallid white and charcoal black color of some people, is there enough time to fit the scripture?

Answer 1

If a trait were selectively bred for you could probably "breed" people with those traits in a relatively short amount of time. After all look at the diversity of dog breeds which happened in mostly a few hundred years. But it would mean stringently selecting for traits, not allowing anyone to breed if they didn't have that train, and if a child showed up with a trait you didn't want that child would not be allowed to breed, and his parents would not be allowed to have any more children either. You are not going to get beardless men by, for example, generations of men shaving. The odd one that did not grow a beard would show up and not be selected against but not for either. You could get beardless men by letting them grow beards and then the ones with less full ones or none at all naturally let procreate.However since eugenics is highly unethical in most all cultures not something that would happen.

The same thing can happen with natural selection, but generally it takes much longer.

Answer 2

it all depends. Humans have all sorts of things in their genetics that are no longer used in todays world. Talking about genes and breeding of dominant traits, 4-6 thousand years could be enough time....but all that depends.

adult molars, in science, the "wisdom teeth" as they have become to be known as serve no purpose in todays world, but we still have them. They are designed for chewing bone to dust so the marrow can escape.

incisors, "eye teeth and stomach teeth" colloquially known were once sharp enough to rip flesh like wild cats and dogs.

the appendix, currently useless and it's purpose still is somewhat unknown used to have a major role in the health of humans....more than likely a filter of sorts like the bladder and liver and spleen but has shrunk to something unrecognizeable from non use.

These are just a few examples of organs and parts of the body that are currently in nonuse by humans and will eventually fade out entirely. When two humans that have the same dominant traits breed, the dominant trait will usually remain dominant unless the recessive trait rears its ugly head. It only takes a few generations of offspring to create a truely dominant trait. And if enough dominant traits breed and create offspring that is more dominant traits that enter the future gene pool. Some traits are easily recognizeable like colored skin or curly hair height differences, but some asre not as easy to find...like hereditary cancer or sicklecell anemia. It all depends on what works best in the climate and atmosphere of the offspring.

Take women okay and men , to not be sexist, for example. They are born with hair on their legs. Hair grows. If that person wears jeans for all their life and never wears shorts or dresses or bathing suits, the hair on those legs begins to rub against the cloth material and not grow as thick. Some women can attest to this. perhaps those people have children and raise them wearing only jeans and then those children have children and so on and so forth, at some point in time, the hair will continue to grow, but it will be thinner. It is the bodies adaptability factor. And for whatever reason the lineage continues to where the thin haired person begins carrying a dominant trait for thin hair. That will become the norm. Now lest hypothetically say that an iceage comes along and seriously effects the thin haired people because they can not retain a healthy amount of heat for their body as a direct result of the thin hair factor, those thin haired people will die out leaving the thick haired people as the heirs to the planet earth and then the thick haired people begin the whole cycle in their direction. That whole process could take thousands of years or just hundreds, depending on the situation at hand and whether the human body's adaptations worked in favor or not for the human population.

Answer 3

No. No it's not. Then again, that answer is based on science, which Creationists seem to hate unless it's somehow helping them.

Answer 4

The length of my beard is none of your business!

Answer 5

All things are possible with G-d. You know that, brother.

Blessings
David