If evolution is true, then why can't we be 25 ft tall like King Kong?

Answer 1

Because it is not evolutionarily beneficial. Duh.

(and it's not an if.)

Scientific report on how King Kong is sort-of feasible:
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9591

Answer 2

Some of the dinosaurs WERE 25 ft tall but their evolutionary path was a defective one. Human development took a more sensible approach so we don't NEED to be 25ft tall and, therefore, we aren't.
Whaddya mean IF evolution is true? Give us a sensible and believable alternative that does not involve invisibility and magic and an imaginary friend. Those characteristics belong in the nursery and we need something more intelligent. We are not all six years old.

'joe d' has the audacity to use an image of John Lennon as his avatar yet talks garbage. How incompatible with the real John Lennon's views.

Answer 3

As anyone who is morbidly obese can tell you, there is a practical limit to the size of a human. We walk on two legs, and so those legs take a beating the heavier we get. Same for the back and the entire musculoskeletal structure.

It is also true that digestion has its limits: the large the person, the more fuel needed to maintain them at that weight. The emphasis must be placed on eating at the expense of other ways to spend one's time.

Remember that King Kong was fictional. It will be interesting to see if a biologist answers and points out the specific ways in which he could not have existed. I am darn sure he would not have been able to haul that big body up the Empire State Building!

Answer 4

because there is no advantage to being 25 feet tall. Evolution happens because of minor mutations in the genetic code that, when developed, provide some kind of advantage to the animal, making it superior to the previous version, and better able to survive and breed.

If, say, we needed to get food that was 20 feet off the ground, a mutation that provided longer legs or better climbing ability would be more advantageous than the "norm". This would continue until either we could climb up the tree (or building, or whatever) or we could reach it by being 20 feet tall.

Such is the reason for evolution.

Answer 5

fake. Evolution is speciation. that's genuine and has befell with none doubt. organic decision is the main mechanism that drives evolution. It purely solutions organic and organic questions. And your occasion is an occasion of that. Hyperfear interior the unknown is a survival trait. extra powerful off being waiting for something and not something happening than being complacent and a few thing does take place. That worry does deliver approximately imagining threats.

Answer 6

Erm... evolution is true. Why should it make us 25ft tall like King Kong?

Answer 7

This is the classic cross-section vs. volume problem.

Let us say that I have a small box, one foot on each side. The cross section has an area (square units) of one square foot. The box has a volume (cubic units) of one cubic foot.

I double all the dimensions of the box. It is now two feet on each edge. Its cross-section is now a 2x2 square, or four square feet. However, its volume is now eight cubic feet.

This causes MASSIVE structural problems for creatures that are not in supportive environments.

King Kong's legs would have literally crushed under his weight.

Answer 8

What makes you think evolution would lead to that?

We aren't 25 feet tall because we have no reason to be.

Answer 9

http://www.mormon.org/learn/0,8672,791-1,00.html

Let us suppose that millions of years ago a cell was formed which had acquired everything necessary for life, and that it duly "came to life". The theory of evolution again collapses at this point. For even if this cell had existed for a while, it would eventually have died and after its death, nothing would have remained, and everything would have reverted to where it had started. This is because this first living cell, lacking any genetic information, would not have been able to reproduce and start a new generation. Life would have ended with its death.

Answer 10

Because there are laws of physics, as well as environmental restrictions. If Creationism was true, why aren't we 25ft tall? Our flaws are signs of evolution.