A question for atheists: Why we have hair?

Question

Don't tell me the shampoo companies like that, just kidding. My point is: If God did not guide the evolution, we would not have hair at all. Please don't say anything about the body temperature on our heads. The primitive men certainly could make caps from animal skins in the same way they made clothes.

Answer 1

Why do you think that if "God" did not guide evolution, we would not have hair? Exactly what is your scientific source for THAT information?

Actually, the body temperature on our heads is exactly the reason that we have hair. Body heat leaves the body from the head quicker than anywhere else, and that why we still have hair there. We still have eyebrows, too, even though primitive men could stand out of the rain so it wouldn't run into their eyes. It has nothing to do with God. We could just as easily argue that- if God had "perfectly" designed us, HE would have designed us without hair, because he KNEW we were capable of making caps.

Answer 2

Posting a science question in the religion and spirituality section often means the asker does not really want an answer. His goal is to ask a question that he believes proves some scientific knowledge to be wrong, or that science does not yet answer, and make the implicit claim that the only other explanation is a god, and specifically, the same god he happens to believe in.

It's the "god of the gaps" - intellectually bankrupt, since it favors ignorance instead of knowledge, and because of the contained logical fallacy.

However, on the off chance that you really want to know the answer:

It could be that humans, having huge heads and losing so much heat through them, gained an advantage from hair - retaining heat.

Answer 3

This is the worst creationist argument that I've ever heard, besides that one about "nature not knowing when to evolve".
Suffice to say that humans haven't had enough time to lose their hair through evolution. Look at our ancestors, like Cro-Magnons. They were much more hairy than we are today.
Eventually, there may be a time when body hair has completely disappeared, because of its lack of function.

Answer 4

Hmm, good question, would you like to ask an evolutionary biologist? Or are you just to try to stump atheists?

Of course, you do realize that the fact that you have hair is NOT proof of the existence of YOUR god. Maybe RA, Mithras, Osiris, or FSM gave us hair. Maybe it was El/IL. Perhaps it was even Asherah, God's wife that none of you seem to remember. That whole part about making man "like us" in Genesis, the 'us' refered to El and Asherah. Look it up in the true history of your religion instead of the christian version. That is, if you aren't scared to do so.

Answer 5

Let's put it in terms you'll understand...

The fuzzy animals that were our parents', parents', parents', and so on would not understand to make caps. Let's put it this way: Do monkeys make caps? The early humans did not make clothes when first separating from great apes.

Hon, before asking such questions and making such suggestions, at least PRETEND to research a bit on the matter.

Answer 6

We are mammals. We evolved this way. Mammals have hair.
Hair's main value is to help insulate mammals -keep them warm. Hair can also have an important role in some species in the identification of males from females - human males have lots of facial hair, females do not.

Answer 7

You are assuming evolution is guided. It is not. Species evolve due to changes in their environment. Evolution is not guided by god, and typically cannot be predicted.

Answer 8

One theory says we were aquatic mammals at one point. What is the only other mammal that has hair on it's head and virtually no where else? Hippopotamus!

Actually they say it was so the mother could grab her children by the hair while learning to swim, or to protect the head from getting too cold because of the water. I don't really know, but evolution is beginning to give us hair on our bodies (have you seen some people???!!!). Here's a link:
http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Evolution/Human/Aquatic_Ape_Theory/

Answer 9

Would the more appropriate question be why god allows some people to have cancer. To make suppositions with missing data only attributes ignorance to your religion.

Answer 10

Just because we can make caps *now* doesn't mean that earlier hominids could. You may as well argue that there's no point in having an immune system since we could just figure out which plants are medicinal.