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Wonder no more. Genesis 1:26-27 ESV Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
I like the water ape theory. ie we had a period of time in our history where we spent a lot of time in low lying water that encouraged us to stand upright. There's a few things which point in this direction. iirc we're the only primate which can control its breath; good for swimming under water. Our fingers wrinkle when we spend time in water; good for picking things up in water. And we lost our hair; hair may have g…
BTW Apparently out of favour, but I like the aquatic ape theory too. Shellfish are high protein, support brain development; coastal settlements found.
Wonder no more. Genesis 1:26-27 ESV Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Now no one knows why god can walk.
Wonder no more. Genesis 1:26-27 ESV Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Now no one knows why god can walk.
I've found the most beneficial exercise for me is hours-long walks/rides, well within my comfort zone - much lower than the heart-rate reccommended. Partly because it's enjoyable.
First, what I'm calling the Geo-Fermi Paradox - why are we the only intelligent animal on Earth?
Sure, it has advantages - but other animals would gain those advantages too. So why didn't they become intelligent (or, at least, more intelligent) too?
Sure, there was climate-change in Africa that rewarded adaptivity - but why didn't all animals in the region become intelligent (or, at least, more intelligent)?
This article has a good argument for bipelalism (due to forests becoming plains). And an interesting argument for stone throwing (and not available to bipeds like ostriches and emus).
Throwing rewards spatial reasoning, providing an evolutionary pressure It's not clear to me that this would lead to intelligence - but maybe it did. (OTOH bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans, and capuchins throw too https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectile_use_by_non-human_organ...).
Wonder no more. Genesis 1:26-27 ESV Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
God the Father is clearly not in a physical form throughout the Bible. I believe that's why "graven images" are forbidden in the Ten Commandments, as they'd mislead people into thinking of him as a physical being. God the Father as depicted in the Bible is closer to an omnipresent, omniscient mind that runs the universe as a simulation inside itself and occasionally talks to entities inside the simulation through avatars, dreams, and visions.
Rather, I think "in his own image" there refers to sapience, self-awareness, and creativity - what is called elsewhere in Scripture "the breath of God".
Much of what makes the Incarnation of Christ so meaningful is precisely that God is made man, with hands, feet, head, and heart. He is Emannuel, "God with us," come to debug and repair the system we broke from within, knowing our suffering and giving us the knowledge and strength to help repair it ourselves.
That all loses a lot of its meaning if God the Father is just a big man on a throne in a cloud somewhere (an image that I have never found anywhere in the text and am puzzled as to where it came from). He was always just one of us if that's the case.
So, yeah. Despite apparently sharing your fundamental beliefs about the world, I think you're way off base about why humans walk.