Why do men have nipples?

[Naraoia]

Ability to reproduce itself in the first generation? Beneficial cancers? Whatever the heck are you talking about?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I am still waiting on scientific evidence that everything came from nothing,

No one says this.

life spontanteously developed from non life,

Qv. the Miller-Urey and Oro experiments.

developed the ability to reproduce itself in the first generation,

True by definition.

through a series of beneficial "cancers"

I don't think you know what the word 'cancer' means.

developed in complexity through added information

Qv. the Lenski experiment.

and design

Design? The point is that it's the appearance of design, rather than genuine design.

without an intelligent designer,

True by definition.

taking us from the goo, through the zoo to me and you.

Yes, how trite.

But even if we weren't able to demonstrate all that (hint: we can), that does absolutely nothing to the veracity of ID - even if evolution were false, that doesn't prove ID is true.

So instead of dodging the question with hyperbole and worn-out rhetoric, you might want to cite some actual evidence.

Honestly, it's like bleeding stones.

 

[Jamin4422]

John,

I am still waiting for the scientific evidence which confirms that God cloned a woman from a man's rib. WHERE IS THAT EVIDENCE?

I said God COULD have. We are a long way off from actually having to prove that He did. Because we are a long way off from actually understanding what the lesson is for us in that chapter of the Bible.

The real question is Mary. There is NO way Mary could have produced a boy child. That had to be the work of God. Unless we were to somehow test the DNA of Jesus to see what we have.

 

[Naraoia]

Not just Miller-Urey and Oro. There are also increasingly amazing ribozymes, protocells, clay catalysis, nucleobases and amino acids from space, and probably a lot more that I forgot or never even heard about. It's worth remembering that abiogenesis research has absolutely blossomed since the 1950s.

 

[Naraoia]

The real question is Mary. There is NO way Mary could have produced a boy child. That had to be the work of God.

Or maybe Mary was not as chaste as the stories would have you believe. As you say, it would be hard to do a paternity test on Jesus.

 

[Jamin4422]

But while still here on earth, we are given the idea that it's our decision. It seems like it is, but because God already knows the outcome, its all in His hands.

I assume your talking calvanism.

 

[KimberlyAA]

The male nipple develops as a result of sexual differentiation, and is designed to produce sexual dimorphism. The human nipple has an abundant supply of nerves and serves several important functions including as a secondary sexual trait, and also as a major stimulatory organ in both males and females.

The male nipples have several important functions, but they are primarily involved in sexual stimulation. Both the male and female nipples contain an abundantly large supply of nervous tissue, and therefore are very sensitive to touch. The male nipple is equally as sensitive as the female nipple. Sykes observes, ‘ … the nipple is innervated principally by the anterior and lateral cutaneous branches of the fourth intercostal nerve. It also receives contributions from the corresponding branches of the third and fifth intercostal nerves’. The presence of an abundance of nervous tissue is a major clue that an organ has a function. Although several differences in the male and female mammary nipple-areola complex exist, both male and female nipples can be stimulated by touch. One major difference is that women have more and larger nipple erogenous zones, and they are as a whole more important to their sexual response.

Another major difference is that the male nipple area nerves are closer together compared with the female, resulting in the fact that their sexual stimuli function must be much more focused and discrete. The importance of the male nipple also is indicated by efforts to reconstruct the male nipple-areolar complex after an accident or disease.

According to Stoppard, it is only in humans that breasts and nipples are involved in sexual activity, and there is no evidence for the evolution of this important response [designed for use within monogamous heterosexual marriage] from lower primates.

http://creation.com/is-the-human-male-nipple-vestigial#endRef24Physical sexual differences between males and females are the result of development due to chromosomal and hormonal influences. In what is known as the biphasic model, one nonsexual zygote begins and the genetic differences that produce the sexual differences exert their effect as development proceeds. Males and females are physiologically identical in the early stages of embryological development. Men have nipples because they have already started to develop at the time when the male hormonal signal to differentiate is activated. Male nipple development is therefore a result of sexual differentiation designed to produce sexual dimorphism. The nipples are obviously part of the design of the male body.

 

[CabVet]

The male nipple develops as a result of sexual differentiation, and is designed to produce sexual dimorphism.

Haha, of all the answers so far, I think this is the worst. "Designed to produce sexual dimorphism"? Give me a break, if the intent was to produce sexual dimorphism, males with no nipples would be a much better design.

 

[Tomk80]

Kimberly, if you copy wholesale, at least give a link. Other people have pointed out before that you should do this, by forum rules. Why don't you?

 

[Loudmouth]

I am still waiting on scientific evidence that everything came from nothing,

Since I am not claiming that everything came from nothing I really don't see your point.

life spontanteously developed from non life,

The first life could have come about through magical poofing and the theory of evolution would be unchanged. Abiogenesis is not a part of this discussion.

developed the ability to reproduce itself in the first generation, through a series of beneficial "cancers" developed in complexity through added information and design without an intelligent designer, taking us from the goo, through the zoo to me and you.

And the above is nothing more than a completely misrepresentation of science. You don't even understand what you are arguing against.

 

[SkyWriting]

I assume your talking calvanism.

Just talking Bible. I don't know what Cal wrote on the topic.

 

[SkyWriting]

No one says this.

Only the brightest do.

"The picture Jim Hartle and I developed, of the spontaneous quantum creation of the universe, would be a bit like the formation of bubbles of steam in boiling water. "
Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing - Slashdot - RichardDawkins.net

 

[AV1611VET]

Why do men have nipples?

Because that's how God designed us.

Those tissues are not gender specific; meaning that women weren't given a monopoly on them.

Baby bottles have them, as well as pipe-machining equipment and lathes.

To think that, since men have some parts that only women should have if they were created by God ... therefore evolution ... is erroneous.

 

[CabVet]

Because that's how God designed us.

Those tissues are not gender specific; meaning that women weren't given a monopoly on them.

Baby bottles have them, as well as pipe-machining equipment and lathes.

To think that, since men have some parts that only women should have if they were created by God ... therefore evolution ... is erroneous.

I just said earlier this morning that I heard the worst explanation for it. Ok, I take that back, this is the worst.

 

[david14433]

I just said earlier this morning that I heard the worst explanation for it. Ok, I take that back, this is the worst.

I agree.

 

[AV1611VET]

I just said earlier this morning that I heard the worst explanation for it. Ok, I take that back, this is the worst.

... You sweet-talker you!

I'll bet you thought that when I said lathes had them, I was talking about human tissue; didn't you?

 

[freezerman2000]

Why do men have nipples?Because we are mammals,and all mammals have nipples.Simple enough?

 

[AV1611VET]

Why do men have nipples?Because we are mammals,and all mammals have nipples.Simple enough?

You mean all that have them are considered mammals, right?

Should a mammal be found without them, then they wouldn't be classified as 'mammals' ... right?

 

[Loudmouth]

You mean all that have them are considered mammals, right?

Should a mammal be found without them, then they wouldn't be classified as 'mammals' ... right?

Platypusses don't have nipples, but they are considered mammals. They do have specialized lactation glands, but no nipples.

Also, why don't we find an animal with feathers and nipples?

 

[AV1611VET]

Also, why don't we find an animal with feathers and nipples?

I just stopped by to answer the OP ... that's all ...

As to why you guys don't find this or that ... well ... I'll withhold answering that for obvious reasons.