I
try and keep an open mind about many different theories or
concepts. However, as much as I try to wrap my mind around
evolution, I just can’t seem to do it. Now, if you were to tell
me that all of us, male and female, crawled up on dry land from
some scum covered pond and we eventually ended up looking and
acting the same….maybe I could buy that. But to try and convince
me that both male and female, men and women, mothers and fathers
came from the same amoeba or whatever…get out of here. I can’t
go with that.
The reason is very simple, how can two humans of different
sexes, but of the same species, think so much differently if
they began at the same time and then evolved over the span of
millions or perhaps billions of years? I just don’t think it’s
possible.
The reason for this statement is simple. Women, mothers,
sisters, are concerned over things that are of absolutely no
interest to men, fathers and brothers. This past weekend my
youngest son announced that he had entered some event with a few
of his college friends. The event will require the teams to
build some contraption and then put it at the end of a large ski
like ramp leading into the lake. The object is to see how far
your entry will travel before sinking after it leaves the ramp.
Now, here’s how the conversation went:
Me: “That’s cool…how high is the ramp?”
Her: “How deep is the lake there?”
Me: “How fast do you think you’ll be going when you hit the
water?”
Her: “If the lake isn’t very deep you could break an ankle or
your leg.”
Me: “Can you put wheels on your entry to make it go faster?”
Her: “I don’t think this is a good idea.” followed by the
standard Mother’s statement of: “Someone’s eye could get poked
out with one of those things.”
See….how the flow is so different between male and female? She
is asking questions I would have never thought about. This isn’t
the first time this has happened in our marriage. When the boys
were very young…I’d let them ride with their arms out the car
windows while they were playing with some toy airplane and
making the propellers go around. She would immediately shut that
down with what I call …”Mothers…lesson #23” which is as everyone
knows revolves around the age old story of…”Don’t do that, I
read about a boy in the paper who stuck his arm out the window
and it was torn off by a bus.” No one has ever found that boy,
but this story has been going around since Moses. Incidentally,
he was told not to stick his arms out of the chariot for the
same reason. Only his mother didn’t read the newspapers, it was
on some papyrus scroll or stone.
Who buys BB guns for boys? Only men, of course. When you had a
BB gun, if you had one…how many times did your mother tell you
that “You’d better watch out since you might put someone’s eye
out with that thing?” Now you could have had a stick in your
hand or a rock and the statement would be the same…You might
have been washing the car and were standing there with a chamois
in your hand, you still get the same universal statement. “Be
careful, that chamois could put someone’s eye out.” My question
is simply this…where did women learn these things? My dad never
said for me to watch out as I might have shot someone’s eye out
with my Daisy Rider, he’d have wanted to know how close I was to
the bulls eye.
No, I’m afraid I just can’t buy the notion that men and women
just simply “happened” out of some primordial soup, there’s just
too much difference between them. If we had all evolved the same
way at the same time, I suspect we’d still be living in caves
eating leaves and waiting for the dinosaurs or whatever was out
there to come and get us for dinner.
But, that’s not what happened did it? Men made sticks and arrows
to take care of the women and women made whatever was necessary
to take care of the men. Both are equally important and valuable
to the human race. I suspect if women had not evolved as they
did, we men would have killed each other off a long, long time
ago.
Makes you think, doesn’t it?
