In a bit of anti-religious propaganda from the NYT, we learn of some work that gives ungodly science types some indication of short term human evolution occurring - from the lede...
A surprisingly recent instance of human evolution has been detected among the peoples of East Africa. It is the ability to digest milk in adulthood, conferred by genetic changes that occurred as recently as 3,000 years ago, a team of geneticists has found.
The finding is a striking example of a cultural practice — the raising of dairy cattle — feeding back into the human genome. It also seems to be one of the first instances of convergent human evolution to be documented at the genetic level. Convergent evolution refers to two or more populations acquiring the same trait independently.
If you can stomach it, read the article through. I'll wait.
Hum dee dum dum... Onward Christian soldier, marching as to..
Oh, back already? See what I mean? Show me where they quote a respected theologian dismissing that evolutionary claptrap about lactose intolerance. Show me a quote from a learned science-type-fellow from the Discovery Institute decrying the poor science displayed by the so-called "scientists" researching this milk business (no doubt funded by the Dairy Council, trying to bump up sales. Got Milk?, indeed. More like Got Eternal Damnation?). That's right, not a one. Bias, pure and simple.
For good G.d fearing Christians, the only thing we are intolerant of is sin (well, and brown people too, but you just know they're sinful... with their sultry eyes and lithe, smooth bodies that flow to the driving beats of devil music, shaking their private parts around and... uhhagghg...)
Ahem. Anyway, why would G.d give his chosen people (i.e. Conservative American Evangelical Christians, natch) something as pure and chaste as Ice Cream that could also give them horrible, horrible gas? See? Makes no sense. The truth is, anyone who is "lactose intolerant" is simply making a lifestyle choice, and they could stop being intolerant any time they want. That Lactaid stuff is just a crutch for folks too weak of spirit to give their hearts to Jeeezusah.
Clearly, just like with those so-called "dinosaurs", these bits of "scientific data" arrived at by "experiments" with "calibrated instruments" are all just G.d's way to test our faith.
Or maybe it's Satan. It's hard to tell, sometimes.