RE: What are your answers?
August 29, 2011 at 8:24 am
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2011 at 9:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A better banana, that's small fucking potatoes compared to grain crops (and potatoes). Which we had begun breeding from wild cultigens about 8,000 years before we began the banana project (and about 9,800 before the modern banana). Not only did we improve the design of these crops, without them we would certainly die of starvation. Some design.
Psalm 147:14 "He makes peace in your borders; He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat."
By the time that this psalm was written, we had been cultivating wheat for so long that the writer was unaware that the very wheat he was thanking god for was a product of human tinkering in the natural world. To support a society with grain took selective breeding, the ability to process by pounding or cooking(or both), as well as evolutionary adaptation that allowed our stomachs (not built for grain) to sequester nutrition from the finished product.
But hell, why not. Let's thank god for grain, may as well ignore the 180,000 years man was without.
Psalm 147:14 "He makes peace in your borders; He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat."
By the time that this psalm was written, we had been cultivating wheat for so long that the writer was unaware that the very wheat he was thanking god for was a product of human tinkering in the natural world. To support a society with grain took selective breeding, the ability to process by pounding or cooking(or both), as well as evolutionary adaptation that allowed our stomachs (not built for grain) to sequester nutrition from the finished product.
But hell, why not. Let's thank god for grain, may as well ignore the 180,000 years man was without.
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