Evolution FAILS in the Human Body
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If you were taking an engineering class in school and you turned in the human body for your final exam… you would get like, a C+. Or maybe a B- at best. That’s because the human body is full of design flaws. Except they aren’t really design flaws, because the human body wasn’t designed. It was evolved, and it is still evolving. And that means some of our parts don’t work as well as they could, they just work well enough. Here’s a rundown of a few of the human body’s biggest evolutionary fails!
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Your body is perfectly imperfect. Thanks evolution! What's your favorite/least favorite evolutionary body flaw?
That one spot at the back of your throat where that small piece of food gets stuck at and causes you to make the weirdest faces and sounds while trying to get the food out Admit it, everyone faced that before and wondered wtf is that spot
eyesight, why do I have to pay for HD
Is it possible to have a accelerated healing or healing factor in humans , by performing some mutations and specific changes to gene patterns , somewhat similar to Deadpool or Wolverine in marvel movies ?
It's Okay To Be Smart ....love your work....I hate that we have imperfect eyes 👀
Please do a video on Apollo11 mission
"Surviving isn't about being perfect, it's about being good enough" When evolution has lower standards than your parents.
There r room to improve
"Surviving isn't about..." To me that was the most important message in this video. Great channel, subscribed
I think you mean "expectations".
FANTASTIC!
As a kid who have Asian parents, that's really not saying much.
Body: "I am perfectly capable of growing an entirely new human being inside of me." Also body: "You really think I'm going to actually fix that ankle you sprained 20 years ago? PFFT!"
I see what you mean. And yet the entirely new human comes out waaayyy before it's ready to face the world. We are born very weak and unable to take care of ourselves if you compare to many other species. There are others born weak like us as well but many actually require much less time to be able to fend for themselves.
The baby is supplied with copious amounts of blood, which is why it's able to develop as it does. Tendons and ligaments, on the other hand, aren't fed with a steady blood supply. In turn, this makes healing extremely difficult and long.
"Do you need it to prevent your species from going extinct? No? Then don't waste my time!"
Have you asked for it to? 🧐Sheesh, rude😏😂🤣✌🏼My ankles are both fine....😁❤️👍🏼
@@JFlora23 oh yes, takes a while, like a year.👍🏼😁😎✌🏼
“Surviving isn’t about being perfect, it’s about being good enough” Possibly one of the smartest quotes I’ve ever heard
Surviving is not "about being good enough" but about adaptation. Without adaptation and gene mutation over time, we would not have come this far but would be extinct.
Its about being better than the possible alternatives within reach of a few generations of genetic changes. In other words, each generation has to be as good as/better than the one before, or its gets selected out. As a result, you can't make yourself less competitive for a few tens of generations to undo one of evolutions mistakes, and only then get better again in the new configuration.
This entire argument is the dump classic blind watch maker Essentially hating on god creation just because we are getting sick and born with problem that means we are thr result of evolution that doesn't make sense at all Cause god hasn't created us to live forever still the human design is intelligent yet we are eventually going to die and age
Watch episode 29, the Journey of Certainty.
My body is just a plethora of failures. Need glasses, have asthma, allergic to some metals, back problems (spina bifida occulta. My spine just straight up decided not to form properly), depression and anxiety. If I wasn't in modern society I probably wouldn't last lol
My sister and I call each other lemons lol . You know like the cars filled with problems right out of the dealer ? .
What metals are you allergic to? Nickel?
@@edwinsalisbury83 that is the big one! It is a pain because I'm allergic to a lot of cheap filler that they put in most affordable jewelry. I've had to go on antibiotics before because I had an allergic reaction to some earrings that got infected. I can't wear belts with metal buckles cause I will break out with a rash on my stomach if it makes prolonged contact with my skin. I've also had reactions to the metal backs of the buttons on jeans so I prefer to wear leggings.
@@amberwolf5371 oh woah that sounds hard. It would be hell for me since I work with metal all the time. Copper, nickel, chromium, and even tantalum.
@@edwinsalisbury83 it's not so bad once you learn what to avoid. And my skin has to make contact for a few hours before I start to have a reaction so just touching or working with metal objects is perfectly safe. I usually run into issues when it is in jewelry or clothing items with metal pieces.
My body is like a temple ... ancient and crumbling ... probably cursed and haunted
My body is a temple too, that's why I keep the shoes on the outside
My body is a temple, but my brain rents it out to party animal Satanists.
@@billdecat855 So just a temple?
@@helloeverybodization ...and the occasional rave.
Ok boomer
Our bodies is like that meme It's not much, but it's honest work.
Omer Love it!
"Our bodies ARE like that meme" Not "is".
@@Amateur0Visionary Ok boomer.
@@avenmitchell9895 you dont know what a baby boomer is, do you?
@The MCJC I'm aware. But, if you don't want people to think you're an idiot, then you should care.
This video is unironically one of the best counter arguments to intelligent design there is. And that's hilarious.
Might be intelligent design if the designer meant to remain unchallenged 😅
This was not very convincing!
@@timexironman1Would you be more convinced if humans wrote it down thousands of years ago? 😂. You believers are hilarious. Believe in some words that people wrote thousands of years ago, but refute the science that literally shaped the world we live in today. You guys are beyond ridiculous and illogical 🤣
Unless our designer is cruel. The human body is the kind of thing you’d design in Spore just to watch the dumb, ugly thing stumble around, or like a challenge run where you intentionally use suboptimal parts.
yeah
"our bodies are designed terribly" the guy who designed us for the simulation creation assignment he had: "aw man, i got a D"
The humans getting mad after finding out that they were a school project.
I remember this scenario on one of Zach Star Himself's videos
Body: gets an infection Body: heats up to kill the bacteria Also body: can't survive being a few degrees above 37°c
37 degrees is pretty cold
tmoe Celcius so times it by 1.8 and add 32 of you use Fahrenheit
37C=98.6F 38C=100.4F FOR THE HUMAN BODY, IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO MEASURE IN FARENHEIT. Above 100 F is danger zone, 100F is approximately 37.77777778C
You think that simple trick would stop working on bacteria millions of years ago.
Very few people die because of high fever. Overall it's an advantageous defence mechanism.
Evolution does not works towards perfection. Evolution only works towards "Eh, good enough to not go extinct."
Evolution doesn’t work towards anything, it’s descriptive.
Yora wrong, evolution is a drunk rollercoaster I mean look at the platypus, its cute but why and what-
Animals which went extinct: *Are you sure about that?*
Ahahaha I love this comment
Most species that ever existed went extinct.
"your body is a blunderland" love that
Or something like Alice’s Wonderland.
I like how Neil deGrasse Tyson complains about how our sexual organs and urinary tract are intertwined. "That's like building the bowling alley next to the sewage treatment plant!"
You're not going to like it but the creatures with the most efficient metabolisms in the world eat and poop out of the same hole
It was an old joke long before he said it
@@vargasg92 um…yea…
A UTI is just Gods little reminder to clean up after having sex.😊
@@QueenJellyBean307 Evolution is a (masonic)lie, Reincarnation is a(masonic) lie, Religions are (masonic) lies, Is there more to say? We all been deceived on a major scale. Whence the truth been known, it can stop a heart. Truth can blow a mind, as the lies collapse. The reality is opposite to what we been told. Many live in delusions and proudly so. Can a soul survive, on the path to truth? Can the faith be found, when life take its turns? Will the heart in the chest keep beating warm? What a wonderful testimonies from souls, who got saved. What a heartbreaking tragedy from those who remianed lost. BIBLE, every time and everywhere, as it to be only book which: heals, guides, judge, warns, helps.
Drinks saltwater and dies Eats caffeine that evolved as a pesticide, and is kept awake
Don't forget capsaicin is natures natural fungicide!
dojokonojo and we love it
Nature: "I have evolved a poisonous chemical defense system to fend off things that would otherwise eat me!" Humans: "This makes me feel kinda funny...in a good way. Pass the chips!"
There is also chocolate.
@@dojokonojo It also is a deterrent against mammals & their molars as birds that spread seeds aren't affected. It's a psychotropic: it literally makes you think you're on fire! Mustard is an insecticide & the taste deters; ofc we happen to be able to break it down. Cocaine deters insects by overstimulating them. Etc.
Human: The muscles of my knees and feet are torn, my bones break constantly, I almost died choking at least ten times this year and I'm severely undernourished Evolution: Can you sex? Human: Yes? Evolution: Good enough
Dude 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah evolution doesn't care about you it just cares if you pass on the genes then if you die or not is in your hands.
This was hilarious! 😂😂😂
But how well can you sex compared to other humans?
@@Nomphalos Lmaooo
Have you made a video about cool human body features? Like how even though we can’t see it, we both glow in the dark and have stripes. Or our ability to throw accurately which isn’t really seen anywhere else. Or how we have one of the most diverse diets, being able to eat just about everything, some of the things we eat like mint and pepper is down right poisonous to other species.
where did you hear about glow in the dark and stripes?
@@VoidAlien they are called blashco lines (most definitely spelled it wrong) it’s the way our skin was formed in the womb. It can be seen under a certain uv light. Not sure about the glowing.
I love this!
Nope he can't...it completely blows his dump argument so if course he won't dare to say this
My top failure if someone insists we were "designed": The birth canal is absolutely ridiculous. No species should court death just to deliver the next generation.
Hyenas have it worse
No species that has such helpless offspring should anyway.
Lol if I design a car does that mean it will never need maintenance. Also most women get through childbirth just fine it just hurts oftentimes.
You aren’t God though
@@EveofPyrite if you literally make the rules of how thinks function, you'd need to INVENT maintenance for it to need it. Since God doesn't apply to human rules of very HUMAN things he could orevent from happening, he could make a perfectly fine car without it needing maintenance. he's MAGIC. and omnipotent. many women still die from childbirth, including children who couldn't get an abortion because of Sects of God's followers banning it. And it hurts ALOT. If he is real then he A: Made EVERYONE have that pain, because of Eve, something we didn't even have a CHOICE IN, or B: Make everyone have that pain for NO REASON, or atleast a reason he won't explain to us? Atheist, out. quick summary: Your comment is assuming that God acts like a human or NEEDS to make his creations a certain way, If a human makes a car it EXOECTS it to need maintenance, God shouldn't. hope this didn't come off as rude 🫡
"Guess who doesn't get sinus infections?" It's squids again, isn't it?
😂👌
I've never seen a squid with a nose...
Charlie Garrison Exactly
LOL!
Octopuses/Octopi is what he said but okay
"Surviving isn't about being perfect, it's about being good enough" I want that on a T shirt. That ending is really inspiring.
There is a fantastic book: Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales that is all about the cognitive and emotional aspects of surviving life threatening situations, which might be worth adding to your "to read" list.
Scurvy Is No Fun Looks like a great T-shirt waiting to happen @ 9:14
Ao Arashi my AP bio class got ourselves a t shirt with, "survival of he good enough" on it
Johny B. Goodenough
Surviving= C- , good for you!
This is probably the most succinct and entertaining argument against Intelligent Design I have seen. Evolution is a random walk. It can lead to wonderful places, such as the extreme color vision of mantis shrimps, or to much less nice ones, as in the numerous spinal and lower-body bone and muscle issues coming from our bipedal stance.
"The human body is not intelligently designed to be perfect." Exactly. We are not designed to be perfect, we are just the "that will do" version of Humanity.
The knee is the perfect example, it works but if you tear your MCL you can't rely in your knee for any inside movement, if you tear you LCL any outside movement will make your knee unstable, if you tear your ACL it's game over in changing direction's, if you tear your meniscus the cartilage will wear down faster and cause arthritis, if you do enough force to tear your quad or patellar tendons you basically will have a horrible time moving in general, if you tear more than one of those things is game over with that leg without surgery, it's so much to go wrong that is laughable (And not even mentioning all the other tendons and ligaments)
I would love to see a video about how an engineer would fix or redesign the human body flaws and how we would look like
Give the task to a biologist and you will get a better design.
No, please don't give stupid people ideas
@Dawson Harris I'm a Millennial 🙃
@@SwedishNeo True but I would find an engineer's way of thinking of efficiency more interesting, we would get more interesting design, possibly more entertaining at lesst
Like me.
Evolution always reminds of the joke in which two hunters see a bear moving their way. One quickly pulls off his boots. and puts on running shoes. His friend looks at him as says "are you crazy? Even with those shoes, you'll never outrun a bear". His friend replies "I don't need to outrun the bear, I need to outrun YOU". That's evolution - your variation doesn't need to be the best that can be, it just needs to be better than the others around you.
ooof
Man! This comment is so underrated
My favorite is when they decide to befriend the bear. I just love the idea of two different species working together for a common goal
What a good point!
😂😂😂😂
"Who the heck designed these things? Well no one did." Christians: aight imma head out
Yeah what a great god, what a great designer he is
Exactly. I do believe in God, but I'm more Spiritual. I know Genesis is a lie and Evolution is the truth! I feel so sad that people who refuse to believe in Evolution miss out on cool facts about our bodies, like these videos that Joe makes for us.
@@libertymartin5167 evolution of wrong, read Qur'an. It's written that there is commanalities because of common creator not common ancestor
@@Newmoon19 uhh, maybe could we not bringing religion to evolution?
@@Newmoon19 lol shut up dummy stop br4inging bronze age book into real science lol
this whole video simply scientifically complementing you on how being imperfect is perfect
“Who designed the human body? Well, no one did!” Christians: *bruh*
Also Christians: It was designed right from the beginning. We just screwed it up by eating some plant that edited the genome just enough to keep us alive but only viable as organisms up to a potential of about 120 years or so.
@@jchinckley erm.... Pretty sure Christians don't say that.
@@jchinckley You're stupid if you think only 2 people can populate the human race into what it is now.
@@moejoegaming9838 , it took 6. Remember the flood.
@@hellavadeal Oh yeah, that's another thing.
"Behold, I have made the wisest of all creatures!" "You've ruined a perfectly good ape!" "What?!" "Just look! It only just reached adulthood, and it's already got persistent self-doubt!"
Reported for copying
Ok boomer
Irish Goose lol
RELATABLE
@@jasminedakota3958 Reported to whom? Did I copy accidentally something that I only faintly remember? Or did someone else make the same comment on this video?
Outstanding video and very well narrated. You have great talent for communicating in an interesting and engaging way and peeking the viewers curiosity.
As someone who is severely disabled and ill, the end part of this video really hit me. Thank you, man…
“Look at all we can do!” *picture of man opening pickle jar*
That's a next tier skill.
show me another animal that can open a pickle jar, and store food indefinitely.
@@robbekker9994 Raccoons and octopi can open jars. Ironically, iirc chimps cannot, because their wrists are too different from ours.
Firmly grasp it!
And only the male of the specie can do it. :D
Tier Zoo: this is how the developers try to nerf humans in the late game.
We to op
Well, it’s probably been like that from update 1.34 or whenever we were made.
More like, This is how the devs tried to buff humans too late, resulting in the morphoanatomy being inefficient... But hey, way too much work when you pull out a whole species and revamp their specs amirite
Yea im a dolphin main and damn humans get SOOOOO much exclusive loot and craftables.
r/outside
I just realised I can see my blind spot. I always thought that was just because I wore glasses but it’s actually a blind spot. You learn something new everyday
I see a lot of mistakes with our evolution every time I open tiktok
I think what's also pretty flawed are allergies. "Hey, this peanut could be dangerous for you. Let me just swell up everything so you can't breathe in order to save you"
Say awh
im eating preanuts when i saw this
Allergies don't work like that
That's close but not accurate
Good old immune system malfunction. 😂
Well, since we breathe and eat through the same hole, I have officially decided to stop breathing so I have a lower risk of choking! 1 Year Update: Don’t worry people! My strategy had indeed been working. I have officially starved myself of oxygen for a year and things are going great! Never even came close to choking 🤪🤪
You okay? Give us an update...
@@velveq maybe he isn't.. 😕
Mmmmm......
Basically anti-vax parents logic too lmao
You dying faster from not breathing than not eating.
Mean while average creationist - "oUr bOdY iS sO pErFeCt, iT mUsT bE dEsIgNeD bY sOmE sUpErNaTuRal bEiNg"
ok bro
So much we can do! Shows someone opening a pickle jar Me: excuse me I’m not superman!
Bible: “God made us in his image” So, God has bad knees, then?
I died.
I have a feeling this is sarcastic, but, the whole “God made us in his image” thing, is that he made us in his *spiritual* image, not physical.
@@paladin_2164 Well I think he messed that up too if that's the case. Have you looked around lately?
Hahahahahhaahahha so this is why I always see clouds covering his lower body when reading a childrens bible when I was young
But no I feel that as to be taken in the litteral sense. he didnt litteraly take his image copy and paste it to the 2 primates that turned into the 2 first humans
Things i would love to see solved in a patch "Human, version 1.1": -eyelashes falling in my eyes -forgetting why i went to the kitchen -forgetting someone's name right after they introduced themselves -easily twisting ankles
Fun fact: Human used to have a very good short term memory. That part of the brain, which most animals have, was likely replaced with the speech center.
The easily twisting ankles will probably get better when we will finally sort out the whole walking on two feet correctly. Now we still have dozens of useless, breakable bones and too complicated structure
My eyelashes are curly and can grow toward my eyes. Pretty sure I'm running a bootleg kernel.
Correct carbohydrate intolerance
Some seashells have eye lenses made of aragonite, a very hard mineral crytal as durable as your bones that can only be affected by acid.
Joe: Everyone has a blind spot in their eyes Me who couldn’t get the cross OR the dot to disappear: …..
For me there is a specific distance where I can't see one, closer or farther, I can see it.
@@preethao.c2262 same
keep an eye on the dot and move about 15 inches
Move slowly and pay attention, sto close, the cross is still there, to far, same thing.
I think he meant move the phone left and right. 🤷♂️
"Let's talk about some of our critical weaknesses." The aliens will use this against us, mark my words.
“Look at all we can do” *shows opening a pickle jar*
Jurassic park raptor's: Am I a joke to you?
@@renz1013 Henry Wu: Am I a joke to you?
That was the most funniest thing in the video. XD
The most important skill to date.
Well, yeah. If you can't open a pickle jar, you starve.
Joe: bodies, we all got them. Me, a computer A.I. : oh yeah, I keep them in the freezer.
Who’s joe
@@tommasogouery6049 joe mama lol funny
@@tommasogouery6049 joe momma
fbi man boi Children
@@tommasogouery6049 Nothing much, what's up with you?
This was the best motivational speech I received this year
Years ago, I asked my eye doctor why, of all the senses, vision seems to go first in humans, and he told me he wasn't an evolutionist. He said it nicely, but I was surprised he didn't learn answers to that. Also, I have a "crook finger" as a result of an old injury, that hand specialists that I've seen said they can't fix. Apparently, there are parts of our bodies that don't repair well either.
Joe: “If you are watching this, you are good enough” Me: That’s the nicest and most motivational thing anyone has ever said to me
You : ^gets migraine* KILL ME NOW I'M NOT WORTHY!!
yea I loved the conclusion, beautiful
You are awesome!🤗🤗
Well, technically if you don't have children, your unbroken 4 billion year lineage ends because of you. So if you have viable healthy children then evolution gives a thumbs up; otherwise... hmm well maybe thumbs up, maybe thumbs down, depends on how well you helped others who have copies of your genes (i.e. your family members, loved ones, your clone army, etc)
@Lonely Guy that nerd
I bursted laughing when Joe talked about the importance of the Achilles tendon and how you can ram a shopping cart into it lmao
Makes me also wonder who designed our shopping carts :p amd can’t we fix that bottom part of the car. Just a few cm higher might be enough.
As a cart pusher for lowes i relate. Plus the garden center carts have handle baskets at perfect knee destroying height so i have to lean forward to not get my knees shattered like a dinner plate. Plus the lumber carts have nearly severed my Achilles tendon god knows how many tines... Those carts have really questionable design choices
As a cart Pusher at Walmart I can confirm exactly the same about said bars and I end up smacking my legs off of them constantly my legs are black and blue probably 75% of my week LOL
I'm now afraid of going to a market
The sad music and crying animated Joe just made it all the better
my family members: look at the human body, so fearfully and wonderfully made. It surely points to a creator me: * reaches for vitamin supliments *
Yaweh's dad probably got lazy on the take your son to work day.
I initially just accepted the combination of being imperfect and aging, as there is not much that can be done. Add in that I also accepted the western ideas of comfort and ergonomics as healthy, plus being too stubborn to change my diet and exercise. Oh yeah, and that whole posture thing is silly. Luckily, I was forced to walk a lot everyday for a while. Suddenly, my legs don't go numb when I sleep on one side too long. Maybe I should try exercising the rest of me. Of course there is that issue with my hands due to all those decades in the office typing, more strain is bad right, wrong. Varying amounts of strain are good, repetitive consistent strain is bad. Playing with heavy dumbbells fixed my hands. And thanks to youtube and some good suggested videos. Like this posture thing is actually a good idea. Still working on the deep squat thing, but close Carrying stuff on the head works too, but still need to work on that as well. Oh and those visits to the physiotherapist taught me so much. Now when I pull something, often a few minutes using mild stretching and pressure on tight sensitive muscle tissue, and I am as good as new. So yes, we do have some imperfections and probably can not always fix them when they result in issues, but let us not forget that our lifestyle, activity and diet may be just as imperfect if not more imperfect, and maybe just maybe we can keep ourselves in better shape than we realized.
I got teary eyed on the last part of the video. "If you're watching this video, then you are good enough" I needed that today. Thank you very much
Yup, I really needed to hear that. I didn't expect it to be here tho
5 months after your comment, I'm getting teary-eyed thinking about the amazing power of words... Hope you're in a better space, bud.
Yes you are king
You are good enough, you always have been and you always will be
It's not even one of those fake comforting words tho. It's literally the real thing. We're the top dawgs, who survived thousands of years. A fish walked out of water one day and look what we've become now, we have memes, we have music, we have racecars, we have amusement parks, we live.... to ACTUALLY live and not just reproduce and die. As miserable as we think our lives might be, along with knowing our physical and mental imperfections, but despite all lf that, we're still a part of this huge phenomena.
The Law of Nature: You don't have to be the fastest zebra just not the slowest.
Extinction is a thing....
RULES OF NATURE! YES RAIDEN, SPLIT IT RIGHT OPEN!
I am obsessed with your voice and your channel. Loving it.
omg I laughed so much thru this. you (and or your writers) rock joe
I’d love to see an artists interpretation of what a perfectly optimized human would look like
I don't think a perfectly optimized human could even theoretically exist. Every optimization comes at a cost. It's impossible to make one feature perfect without compromising the perfection of some other quality of the human. Perfection really depends on what it is you're optimizing for specifically.
@@sk8rdman i think we can evoke math and physics and come closer to it. A body flaw: Why am i here? Evolution: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the body. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision.
Humans are already perfect humans...if they were different, they wouldn't be humans.
Scientific American designed one in a promo booklet thirty or forty years ago. I have always regretted not being able to afford to subscribe at that time.
Someone did, but it isn't beautiful thou.... Alien I can say.....
"I'll have vitamin C please" "Sorry, vitamin c machine broke"
Error 404: Vitamine C machine not found
Dangit it has 69 likes i cant like it now
Understandable have a great day.
The GULO cascade pseudo gene was instrumental in my atheism. Our bodies were not designed with intent or foresight.
I ded now
7:48 My biggest fear is someone coming up behind me and cutting my Achilles tendon, just saying this makes me want to cut off my legs
can't wait for genetic engineering to become a normal thing "ah, you sliced your arm off, no biggy, it will just grow back"
Who slices there arm off , even in future
@@xuehua2564 i mean of all the people that got their arm sliced of, how many did it intentionally
“If we were intelligently designed the designer was drunk” -Arron Ra
Flamingo Queen: lol Stupid (god bothers)
We were designed in a haste. Our creators didn't care about our life span. We are just more intelligent livestock. They lived for thousands of years and they didn't care about quality of our life at all. The only goal was to create an army of workers to serve them, with short lifespan to make changes, if needed, quick and effective.
@@kodlcan While this is a cool hypothesis, there is nothing to indicate that this is how it really went down.
@@steaks3451 But there is plenty of evidence that we share genetics with every other living creature aswell as extinct ones too. As do all living creatures on the planet. We have common ancestors where basically all life shares. With scientists around the world studying evolution, natural selection, and genetics. While we have a lot to learn. We do know that evolution by natural selection is real and true. I realize this would probably be a better response to @Kodlcan as they were the ones talking about creators and designing.
Haha. The video is basically summarisation and points to make if you came across a creationist.
“How come animals’ bodies work better than ours?” “Animals don't have couches.”
Based on the things he pointed out where does a couche fit in? Sinus, weak knees & ankles, defective eyes & ears. Nutrition that we cannot make but others can make, the only thing a couch is impacting is comfy self and a fat body🤷🏽♂️
pierre goba I meant that humans are lazy while animals have to survive out in the wild every day, always at risk of being eaten. Since more people survive, the likelihood of people with bodies that don’t work so well increase, meaning more of those not-working body genes pass on. See what I mean? Their bodies function better partly because the ones that didn’t died off.
pierre goba Bad back.
Koi Bubbles do also note that even most fit, healthy people, we all have the same body structure. Always ready to crack.
How many other kinds of animals can build houses, roads, automobile, computer, television, bicycle, airplane, and telephone. Seems human bodies did pretty good. Sloths are even slower than humans.
“And others look like Ikea furniture if you accidentally threw the instructions away before putting it together.” 😂😂
I can imagine a sequel to this video, being about Transhumanism, cyborgs, CRISPR, and NanoMachines son.
Transhumanism is toxic. We have to learn to love ourselves
@@MaxOakland I want to live forever. I want to outlive the Sun. I want to have my own space program like Elon Musk, and see more of the universe. I want to deliver things between planets and solar systems. I want to help with the colonization & terraforming of Mars. I want my own spaceship. Aging is a disease. Whatever the financial cost, I want to earn the final solution to that & cancer.
Why? @@observingrogue7652
@@MaxOaklandI don't see why technological augmentations are a threat. People already get biological enhancements to their natural forms, prosthetic limbs are a thing. Would those people be better off without their aids?
The nutrients you mentioned are micronutrients but you called them macronutrients, the macronutrients are carbs, protein, and fat.
I'm happy someone else noticed this too. Regardless, I love the video!
@@archaeopteryx9458 Simply put, Macronutrients are nutrients that the body needs in large amounts and contribute to caloric potential energy. Micronutrients are nutrients needed in smaller amounts that don't directly contribute to caloric potential energy. You are right, both are important for health and survival, but the categories are different.
@@NickWellingFitness Dont teach him. He should've paid attention in grade 6 biology
I bet you got bad knees though...
thats right
Forgot one: menstrual cycle. Wtf is up with that nonsense!?!
Yess! Period pain!
well, if not your periods you would never get a chance to have a baby and humanity would never take place. if you're asking why do you have it? then it's your period releases the tissue that grew to support a possible pregnancy. it happens after each menstrual cycle in which a pregnancy doesn’t occur-i.e. when an egg hasn’t been fertilized and/or attached itself to the uterine wall.
Maximus Shishkin Yeah but a lot of animals get to avoid it. For one reason or another. One fertile week a year sounds potentially less hellish than every month, or if you’re unlucky more frequently than that.
@@maxshishkn Cat's do not have bloody periods, nonetheless, they get pregnant.
@@maxshishkn u do realize that WE ARE THE only mammals that don't reabsorb the lining of the uterine wall when we shed. U DON"T SEE mammals in nature just bleeding on the ground for days every month cause if u did they would be dead on the ground from a predator. Humans avoid this because we have our brains. All other mammals don't have such luck so they had to evolve to not have something so stupid. Hence fixing this would be simple, i'll add it to my list of things to add as I do my genetic research thanks for reminding me of this one females. :)
OMG this was probably the most hilarious one I've watched, I laughed and ached at the same time
When you quickly change directions while running you have multiple ligaments holding your knee together, the MCL, LCL, ACL, among others that provide passive stability. Our quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves provide active stability and contract as necessary as backup for the ligaments. Those muscles fire within milliseconds to stabilize the knee. It's pretty amazing!
It really is!!! I wish he would have mentioned that the reason knee, foot and hip dysfunction in our modern world has more to do with obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, than it does the design of our bodies. Ancient man was active and probably had an average BMI of 19. In the US the average BMI is 26.6.
@@alethalassiter Agreed! There are several of these type of videos and their goal is to make the body's design look bad. They are always made by agnostics or atheists and it's a way to try and discredit God's design. I've noticed all the videos are dishonest in the way that they present their arguments and they don't give nearly enough credit for all the marvels of the human body.
ACL tear occurs when you try to rotate your torso without rotating your legs with it. ACL is the only thing supporting the knee because those leg muscles, don't exert force sideways. The pectineus and sartorius let you flex and rotate the thighs at the hip joints not quadriceps or hamstrings. Consider it like this. There are two wooden rods which are connected by a thin piece of wood (ligament). Now rotate one rod without rotating the other, the thin piece of wood will break.
bad eyes would have been naturally selected away if we were not so smart.
Good point!
Now we got a bunch of Mr. Magoo's walking around.
Well you must have seen some kind of shitty vilan in a movie or book that was crazy about starting evolution in human race again usually by killing defected people . I never thought about it but they are a little bit right we can't progress if we as a race don't evolve . Hope scientist will figure out a way to evolve as a race without killing people by I dunno modifying our geome or something
Small dicks too
If we hadn't been smart we probably would have gone extinct.
‘But, who the heck designed these things?’ Christians have entered the chat. ‘Well, no-one did.’ Christians have left the chat.
it's actually true, if you have elementary school written compression. " let US ( plural ) make man in OUR ( plural again ) image " so no one did, it's a collaboration. Also the clitoris and labia is just an undeveloped penis and scrotum, woman is made from man...
lord Sesshoumaru what?
No way if we design... We will be more perfect that this.....
XX is the default setting, female.. Animals without any genitals like worker bees, are genetically female One SRY gene makes a penis.. or doesn't.. It's usually on the Y chromosome, but sometimes on an X, chicks sometimes have dicks, as it were... Sometimes the gene is missing from the Y chromosome and you get a dickless chap too There are other genes that control hormones, so you get gals with masculine hormones and guys with feminine ones Of course this system only applies to humans, other mammals, some snakes and bugs and ginkgo plants.. Everyone else gets their own systems.. Biology is nuts... But female is the base model, maleness is an optional extra.. :)
@@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV female is the base model since reproduction is super important.
But you have to consider the fact that our brain evolved enough to point out faults in our own evolution....
Most of the bad stuff is a side effect of a positive mutation. Our larynx getting bigger meant we had a higher risk of suffocating on our food, but it also gave us much better communication with our group members.
@@Hugh.Manatee yupp....but taking in your example, evolution thought communication>breathing so evolution is dumb sometimes.....SOMETIMES
@@Hugh.Manatee and we really can't forget periods. wastage of resources for no reason at all
We also have things we don't use, like the wisdom teeth, appendix and also the brain, which many people don't use.
I like how he says "look at all the things humans can do!" While showing everything that humans created designed FOR the human body
I'm sure that you know he's talking about how we can pull off stunts, apply great strength in our hands, eat a lot of different things, balance very well, etc. That's what the pictures are showing off, not specifically showing off what has been made for our bodies.
And regardless... any object made for humans was made BY humans, as well. The engineering and ergonomics of any and all of those pictured are pretty spectacular things in and of themselves, and its all "things we can do".
Yeah, but the human body can do them! 🙂
Funny thing is that we don’t actually rely on many of the things in our society, we just depend on them because of our culture
@@genostellar That's what human can do. Create.
When he mentions the ACL being torn, I feel weak in the knees
i felt it too
Palms are sweaty Knees weak Arms are heavy
@@EdoDave Mom's spaghetti
You can walk fine with a torn acl with no pain, you would have been fine in hunter gatherer days with that injury you would actually be able to do fine with torn acl mcl and pcl , if it we Achilles you would be out of luck
Same
You are mind blowing sir!!!! I just watched one of your videos as a suggestion.....now am addicted!!!!!!!
Are bhai ye sir kehna band karo
@@abk192 kyu????
@@anustupsengupta4335 sir culture angrezo ke gulami ke ramnenrts hai pure duniya me bs ham hi bach Gaye hai ji sir sir karte rehte hai
@@abk192 pehle English theek se bolna likhna sikhe aap phir jaake angrezi mizaz k saath ladna! Pehle kam se kam uske star pe aao jisse ladna ho! Kya wahiyat si soch hai! Ek English speaking insaan ko 'sir' agar nahi bolenge to kya seedha unke naam se pukarenge? Yahi hai na tumhari 'Shudhh Desi Bhartiya' shist ta? Sabko unke naam se pukarte honge tum lagta hai...sambodhan to 'Angrezi' hai na.. 'महोदय, भाईसाहब, जनाब, सज्जन, श्रीदेवी, माते ....ye sab kya hai???
@@anustupsengupta4335 lol sab comments padhna koi angrez sir bolta hua nahi dikhega lekin gulamo ki adat nahi gyi ab tak jo karna hai karo bhai me jao
I love how engineers and evolution agree on one thing "Its not about being perfect, its about being good enough"
Evolution: I think your body is good enough Crispr: i'm going to end this man's whole career
😂😂😂
not a lot of people understood your joke, well no 42 is a lot actually
CRISPR will be the future.
Reject evolution, create the perfect human
@@aliensguy4291 Reject humanity. Return to monke.
This video is how the aliens are gonna learn our biggest weaknesses.
We already know them Earthling.
I mean, we humans aren’t all that subtle anyway.
Attack their knees!
And get those elbows and heels while you’re at it. Those joints are weak sauce.
All they gotta do is slice the back of our heels and we're immobilized, stick that slicer in our throat and we're dead
I almost died laughing when he said "since we walk on the balls of our feet".
Something I think about a lot is period cramps, which are apparently not supposed to be a thing. If you think about it, if periods were supposed to be as painful as they are, then that would mean that 1/8th of the otherwise able-bodied population would be out of commission at any one time (seven days on period for every 28 days is 1/4, only half of all people get periods, that's 1/8th). How is that sustainable when you're living in a hunter-gatherer society??? Sidenote, apparently most animals reabsorb the uterine lining instead of shedding it. A lot of people are rightfully jealous but it apparently comes with its own set of problems completely different from the ones we get.
"Every animal with a backbone has a blindspot." Are you calling cephalopods cowards?
Scott Morgan - No, just spineless.
@@roxyshow123 No, *BONELESS*
@@legendarypussydestroyer6943 Are you that killjoy at a family gathering who destroys every joke with scientific facts?
@@roxyshow123 i dont think u got the joke, you never heard of boneless pizza?
@@Hamani1999 I have to admit I have never heard of a boneless pizza. Is that a meme?
The ending notes "no BODY is perfect, and if you are watching this you are good enough" made me feel so much better about myself. I was feeling down today bc I am disabled and can't do as much stuff as most other people can, so it was nice hearing that even though I can't do some things, its keeping me alive so its good enough :)
Hey we're here to help... So what we can't be physically be there but our words are always there with you... Stay strong.. your brave cuz you made it till here... And you have a long way to go... So never think of giving up... All the best!
Aww :)
Hang in there buddy I'm sure you have the ability to change the world and make it a better place
good enough to watch youtube rather lulz
hang in
That ending, beautifully written.
I loved this video about evolution failing to produce or retain the details of the human body. Carry on making marvellous videos like these because I am really excited and willing to watch all of them (most because I enjoy biology) Thank you so much!
I'm watching this because I was born after antibiotics were invented.
Ok boomer
And born before antibiotic resistance has spread too much.
@@Contra1828 Nah, after that we'll probably be using bacteriophage
username checks out
*discovered, antibiotics were found and developed not invented dumb dumb
Who designed these things? "No one did" Rip every religion ever
imagine not realizing that God and evolution coexist, cringe
Nope there are a lot of ideas how to combine evolution and god. More like RIP the idea of an all steering and intervening god.
If only...
Sometimes I envy creationists because they have someone to blame all this bullshit on.
God
Awesome video! I love watching your videos. :) The part where you laughed after the ACL hunter gatherer bit was hilarious. Just so you know though vitamins aren't essential macronutrients, macronutrients are carbohydrates, fat, and protein, we only have three of those, micronutrients are the vitamins.
A tendon is a band of tissue that connects muscle to bone. A ligament is an elastic band of tissue that connects bone to bone and provides stability to the joint. Cartilage is a soft, gel-like padding between bones that protects joints and facilitates movement. Also, Ligament has lesser blood supply than tendon.
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why? ' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand" Vonnegut
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We have become wise fools
I hate Pain and Hunger. They're so useless. IF anything: Give me one little shock, IF necesary - but constant pain and/or hunger is just useless or more. Possibly even bad. I mean, isnt Pain reducing my Survival Abilities? Thanks, Evolution, thanks. -And that's simplifying it.
@@slevinchannel7589 Well, if there was big, let's say splint in your back, and it would cause pain only once, you would've probably ignored that and it could end in infection which can lead to gangrene and probably death. But in scenario in which you feel constant pain which basically forces you to doing something so you remove said splint and you're more likely to survive because the faster you take it out the bigger the chance it won't get infected. So constant pain is a body's way to warn you that there is constantly something wrong with it. But still I partially agree with you. For example toothache really sucks because before the era of dentists you couldn't really do anything about it except rip it out. Nonetheless causes of toothache can be almost just as deadly as an infection so i understand why our bodies do this.
@@kubox000 Yeah, nice scenerios, buddy, but no, in reality, it just does not work as intended. I'm amazed how my Body's Warning Signals actively make my survival harder, if anything. Mostly, hunger and pain do not ever improve anything. I would also not starve if i never had hunger - I'm smart enough for this, since decades. I see no use in all this, looking at countless scenarios that actually happened.
Him: your eyes are f*cked up. Me, a literal blind person: Trust me. I know. Lol
How r u blind if u cant type that comment
@@DivineBeastVahMedoh there are things called braille keyboards, and theres also a chance this person was just playing a character as a joke
@@supahcomix he said literal, and braille keyboards wont show you where the buttons on a computer screen are, unless a braille computer screen exists too
@@DivineBeastVahMedoh he usd the talk back option on his phone it tells you what buttons your pressing
@@DivineBeastVahMedoh My guy voice text, and accessibility mode in your phone help blind people use phones. Stop acting like you know everything.
This explains so much about things we gave for granted
That blind spot thing is really interesting! 🤯 I don't even wear glasses or anything and I was about five feet from the decent sized tv before one disappeared. Is it the size of the characters? Like if they were a little bigger, would that still happen? Or would it just change the distance it takes to happen?
It's mostly about how far apart they are, that's why with a larger display the effect happens further away. It's actually the incident angle between the spot you are concentrating on and where your blind spot is in the retina.
When you said "this is not how someone would design an efficient leg" (or something along those lines) it got me wondering if a bioengineer has ever tried to design an efficient bipedal leg
Looks at birds. Ostriches have good ones.
Take a look at the prosthetics used by amputee athletes. They are significantly more efficient in a lot of ways.
To answer your question: yes! Bioengineers don't just develope designs seen in the nature without extensively calculate and measure whether the design is the most appropriate and efficient for a given task.
yeah they can make a knee and foot joint that bend in either direction
@@EmilMToft but we born, grow and die, just think if that will make a change or changes may be ??
Fancy dancing apes is the best descriptor of humanity I’ve ever heard
So I can avoid breaking down in my 30s by walking on all fours?
11:30 not going to lie I needed to hear that. Thank you.
People: Human body is perfect Me: Lying in bed wanting to die due to Migraine
Human body is perfect My female reproductive organs: HAHAHA!! nope!
People : human body is perfect Male exposed reproductive organ : "I'm in danger!"
I feel you.
I feel you on the migraines. Mine happen when my neck gets out of whack. My mom is more prone to them when her insomnia is worse. If you haven't already, I hope you can figure out what triggers yours.
@@usagi2934 The wingdangdoodle and the oompa loompas were, at one point, protected by tails and thighs like other quadrupeds. Now it's a giant "KICK HERE!!!" sign.
what i learned today: "Im good enough." mehhh "Im a survivor of a 4 billion years story." WOW
Yeah the same with all the other trillions of animals that lived on this planet. Stop trying to find meaning where there isn't any. Ya just a nobody who'll be completely forgotten in a few generations
Think of it this way: You know all those huge extinction events? ALLLLL of them? Including the one that took out over 90-something percent of _all life on Earth_ ?! We're from the percent of a percent of a percent that survived ALL of them. :)
@@nutmeg0144 We've been around for technically 4 BILLION years, of course trillions of species will survive, quadrillions or even QUINTILLIONS probably went extinct
The cross disappearing freaked me TF out. How have I lived this long with these eyes without noticing things disappearing?
2:34 If you close both of your eyes, you can't see either the dot or the cross
Oh my god your right
So you're sayin that if we advance in genetic engineering just enough......We can fix the Vitamin C problem forever!
Well no. Not forever. The fact that we lost it once indicates it could happen again. But yes we might be able to solve that problem. I just don't see who would go through the trouble and expenses of genetically changing all the humans on the planet just to get back the ability to produce vitamin C on our own.
With pretty much all the amino acids our bodies need. Yes The only reason we can't do it today is that getting a genetic change to propgate across all the cells is extremely difficult. That's why genetic testing is done on mice embryos. When the cells can be counted on one hand, it's far simpler.
I see how it may be possible, but it will definitely take some work. Our vitamin C gene isn't just turned off, it's broken.
Yeah but the world would like it since it's you science
i don't understand the problem we can easily get vitamin c from food it is not really something to worry about and besides we live in average as much as 5 times more then the animals he describes.
One of my favorite idiocies of evolution is the recurrent laryngeal nerve. It goes from the brainstem to the larynx. Simple enough? No.. this nerve heads south toward the heart, like an idiot, and loops around the aorta before coming back up to the larynx. The route made perfect efficient sense back in our fish ancestors. It looks silly in humans, and ludicrous in giraffes.
You watch Med Life Crisis too? 😉
Richard Dawkins showed this on a giraffe a while back to students in the UK, a great example of how imperfect evolution is.
Second video in a row of excellent videos fro you guys. Thanks