Comment on I think the reason we evolved 5 fingers is so we can carry hot serving dishes farther by alternating which one is in contact with the hot thing.

unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I learned in bible school that the reason we have 3 segments on our fingers is that with the palm they align perfectly with the panels on a banana. This is evidence of the perfect creator–the Christian God, and why humans can only hold bananas.

This is an actual thing an apologist said. He later backpedaled, but not before it became a trope to teach in Christian schools as evidence against evolution.

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