re: Missouri Bill Would Warn Parents of Evolution Boogeyman

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Your desperate clinging to archaic supposition is producing an inability to articulate

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I'll admit, your posts have rendered me speechless from time to time but not for the reasons you'd like to believe

Riddle me this: Why do infant humans have a palmar grasp reflex?

I'll go ahead and help you out: It's a vestigial autonomic reflex from when we were roaming the plains of Africa as lesser evolved hominids. Infants traveled by clinging tightly to the hair on their mother's back, the exact same thing modern ape and chimp infants do. The reflex is completely useless in modern humans, as we have neither the quantity of hair on our bodies for them to cling to nor the need for them to do so. It is entirely vestigial and now serves only for "awe cute"moments when a baby grabs your finger, something it is doing completely unconciously.