2007-05-11 13:44:11 · 9 answers · asked by Kathryn™ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Especially when it's only humans who have to lick them to turn over the pages of their Bibles.
2007-05-11 13:47:22 · answer #1 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The opposable thumb derives from Carpolestes simpsoni, a small arboreal creature with grasping paws that lived about 55 million years ago, and which is the ancestor to the primates. The thumb was a useful adaptation to arboreal life, and acquired new utility on non-arboreal primates.
2007-05-11 13:52:39 · answer #2 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question! It shows we are from one Creator. You can see the likeness in other animals also! Like eye's and ear's, legs and arms. Check out the nose and ears on the elephant! Was our Creator showing His variety in the same design or just being humorous? Here is a part of an article from here. http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/8/22a/article_01.htm Please click the link to enjoy the whole article!
It is only natural for us to marvel at creations too wonderful to be duplicated by humans. One famous line of poetry says: "Only God can make a tree." Yet, far more marvelous is the creation of a baby, which occurs without any creative direction from parents. When sperm from the father unites with an egg from the mother, plans are quickly drawn up in the DNA of the newly formed cell to produce a child. "If written out," it is said, the instructions within the DNA "would fill a thousand 600-page books."
That is but the beginning. The original cell divides to make two, then four, then eight, and so on. After about 270 days, a baby made up of thousands of millions of living cells of more than 200 kinds is born. And to think that the original cell had within it the information to make all the different kinds of cells and to produce them at just the right time! Are you moved to praise our Creator? Note the praise furnished by the psalmist who wrote: "You yourself produced my kidneys; you kept me screened off in the belly of my mother. I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made."—Psalm 139:13-16.
2007-05-11 14:02:52 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because Adam was the "caretaker" of the wild beasts and well, sometimes, Eve just wasn't enough?
2007-05-11 13:48:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because God created them to have thumbs. Simple.
2007-05-11 13:53:11 · answer #5 · answered by Prayer Warrior 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God knew they would need them to eat bananas.
Sorry, I had to poke a little fun. :P
2007-05-11 13:57:28 · answer #6 · answered by future dr.t (IM) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because G-d created us that way
2007-05-11 13:46:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
They are for grasping.
2007-05-11 13:53:54 · answer #8 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dexterity
2007-05-11 13:47:10 · answer #9 · answered by momof3 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋