If humans have evolved how come we need clothes to protect us?

Question

Whether we find ourselfs in Alaska, New york winter, or the dessert, we need clothing to protect us.

Without proper clothing we will definately freeze to death in cold temperatures and/or our skin will burn in hot temperatures.

Even in tropical islands, without proper use of skin care products we will eventually get some sort of skin cancer from the sun. Even Black people cover their skin with sheets from the sun in Africa.

Why haven't humans evolved with more protective skin layers?

I wonder. Well, really I don't wonder, because I know Evolution is a lie and the biggest scientific fraud in history. I wonder how Evolutions got so popular, well, I really don't wonder at all either, I look at the world events and chaotic conditions of our society and understand fully that people will do anything to delete a God out of their lifes.

Answer 1

Well I am not going to walk around naked in the middle of winter, too cold, so I am glad for clothes

Answer 2

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
A little intelligence is worse than no intelligence at all.

So - assume the following, and it must be an assumption because no-one was around at the time to make a factual record of it but science is suggesting from strong clues that the following scenario is about right ...

Mankind's emergence onto the world scene began in Africa. Man at that time was short, dark and very hairy. The ozone layer was also far more effective than it is now?
Now if man stayed where he was and didn't migrate and didn't begin to get less hairy, clothing would not be an issue. However, the early humans were very inquisitive and wandered afar, maybe just to see what was over the next hill (Gee - I am keeping this very simple for you!)
Eventual migration brought man to a different environment, where he felt the need for protection against the elements. Animal skins were good for that. Take this a little further in your imagination and the answer is clear - or do I have to draw pictures?
Have you not seen photographs or film of primitive tribes who, to this day, are totally naked? Do you not, at the very least, watch Discovery Channel? Or is that an anti-Christian thing to do, as you might just learn something?
The fact that you ask the question and then give your idea of a definitive answer plus appear to be very defensive by throwing religion into the mix when evolution has nothing to do with fake gods, merely shows ignorance of a remarkable level.

I can't imagine why level-headed scientists would band together and tell lies about something as basic as the development of all life ... what on earth could be their purpose? Just to annoy religious folk? What seems likely? Doesn't logical reasoning mean anything to you?

Education is a wonderful thing. Religion is not.

Answer 3

Alright... here is the explanation:

Humans are apes.... yes... still.
Our ancestors were arboreal... living in the trees... in africa. As you might imagine it is quite warm there. But anyhow....

We descended from those apes living around the periphery of the forests, and as you might imagine that often involved moving out of the trees and into the open to find food. Now clearly, the body structure of an arboreal ape isn't best suited for life in the open, outside of the trees. As we were group hunters already, it was only natural that being able to stand upright to see further over the grass would benefit us... and so that stuck. Likewise, the adaptation of our feet and legs for walking on the ground helped our ancestors move away from the trees altogether, which consequentially made it advantageous to get rid of the unnecessary arboreal adaptations.

The thing is... our ancestors became upright and started using tools quite a bit before they lost their hair. The hair wasn't thick, but then we originated in africa and it was rather warm there... at least during the day. Naturally... out in the sunlight it started becoming a burden to be covered in hair over time (drag when running, sweat causing it to matt up, etc), and those with less of it were naturally selected for..... And yet in equatorial regions it can become very cold at night, and that had to be compensated for.

Our ancestors had already developed simple tools for killing... stabbing... even cutting flesh. It was only a matter of time until they learnt that putting the fur of the animals they killed on themselves helped them stay warm at night, and if necessary even protect from the sun during the day... Aside from that as well, there was the simple fact that the skins of particular animals could be worn as a trophy by males to demonstrate to females their hunting ability.

And naturally... once something like that catches on, it starts to become more regular. Parents taught their children that animal skins could be used to keep warm in the cold. With more reliance on the skins of other animals, humanity needed its own hair less and less.... and there were advantages to not having it... hence it would be selected against until much had gone.... From that point, reliance on clothing would become absolute (until eventually it reached the point where clothing was expected and nudity became embarassing, but that was much later).



Anyway....
There is an explanation for you.
It is hardly essay quality.... but it tells you what you needed to know. All quite basic really.

Answer 4

I understand you motives, but your reasoning is in error.
As you may well know in Genesis Chapter 3 verse 21, God put clothing on Adam and Eve. That is where it began. Mankind's mistake with the Tree of Knowledge enlightened man that he was naked and unprotected. So we continued to wear clothing.
As long as we wear clothing, then there is no mechanism to trigger an adaptation to the environment which might lead to evolving an outer covering.
One might equally argue that as cavemen became more intelligent, they began to augment their natural outer coverings with fur and skins which made their natural outer covering redundant and the loss of that outer covering is a result of evolution just as we no longer use our appendix and have little use for the smallest toes and they are slowly getting smaller and may someday disappear altogether.

Answer 5

Good question! Now here's a few for you: if an all-powerful and perfect God made us, how come there's birth defects? How come there's malaria, and leprosy, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and poisonous snakes, and how come there's killing cold and how come our skins weren't designed so we don't need sunblock and how come my son is colorblind - if all were made by a perfect God????? Not ONE of those conditions is due to a person's failure to comply with Biblical injunctions, not one of them is OUR fault. Or could it be that there IS no God and Evolution -which every scientist in the WORLD agrees is real - is also imperfect? BTW - there is no such thing as "creation science".

Answer 6

I actually heard a news story about that a couple of days ago on NPR. It was something to the effect that our ancestors found less hairy people more attractive, thus they were more inclined to breed with them. This also may explain why the Neanderthals disappeared. They were hairy. Because of that our ancestors saw anything hairy as animals and thus food. They may have literally had them over for lunch.

All you have to do is look at what is considered attractive today. Humans do not always think straight when it comes to practicality vs looks.

There was another article I read about the development of Body Lice. This species evolved at the same time as humans began wearing clothes.

Answer 7

Clothes are cool.

I like being able to change my appearance by changing my clothes.

That's a great innovation. Fashion is an excellent example of evolution.

Thank God for clothes!

And also, do you really want butt sweat and body hairs all over chairs and sofas and stuff? EWWWWW!!!!!

Please keep a layer of clothing between me and your junk.

Answer 8

I love it when Creationists piss on their own foot.

Your entire argument stems from the fallacy that evolution works in a way to make everything PERFECT. Just because you don't like some features of humanity doesn't mean evolution didn't happen, skippy.

If you reread your little pedantic dissertation, you'll find that it pretty much destroys the idea of Intelligent Design.

"people will do anything to delete a God out of their lifes."
Your god doesn't exist, Pablo. kthxbye.

Answer 9

Did you REALLY call evolution a lie?

If so, you are beyond help. Thankfully idiots like yourself are getting fewer and fewer.
The FACT is sparky, that evolution has MOUNTAINS of peer-reviewed evidence to back it. What does religion have? Fairy tales and myths.
Kind of like a boxing champ taking on a retarded 4 year old.
Just go back to your book of bronze-age jewish mytholgy, the rest of us will do all the hard thinking for you.

Answer 10

There are advantages in hot areas to not having fur. Wearing cloths actually makes us much more versatile and therefore able to survive more places. That is all that evolution cares about, not what you think would be best.

FYI. You can tell your relatives did have fur. You still get goosebumps. This would be useful if we had fur because it fluffs it and makes more insulation. For us it is worthless.