DeeAnn T. - August 28 at 9:41pm near Ambler, PA via Facebook
Here's a question EVOLUTIONISTS can't answer with "Big Bang/Evolution" answers!
In the summer, humans need certain nutrients, with WATER being the chief among them! Look at the fruits that show up in the summer! Watermelon, all melons, strawberries, etc. Highest in water content.
In the winter, foods that will store well over several months are needed. Like Apples, pears, and pumpkins...
Smiling! And feeling like Elijah with a moat full of water around my altar!
Jim E.: DeeAnn, there's no question here. Are you asking how humans came to culture and nurture these specific fruits in what is now North America?
DeeAnn T.: @Jim ~ there is no Comment here.... Humans can "culture" all they like, and the fruits still show up at the right time.
John James D.: From my understanding, the great flood caused the earth's axis to tilt. The flood was the result of man's sin, as is any form of suffering. We are ALL human and ALL born into sin. Fortunately, God gave us a way out, though.
Jim E.: DeeAnn, in northern latitudes the growing seasons are affected by freezing temperatures and available light. In tropical areas of course, growing seasons are limited by water, but otherwise many fruits and nuts are available throughout the year.
First, human nutrition needs don't change much, if at all, throughout the year. This is demonstrated by vitamin D deficiency among humans in northern latitudes each Fall and Winter, and the relationship of human skin color and diet to vitamin D synthesis. Light-skinned people need about 20 minutes of UV light to reach vit. D. equilibrium, whereas those with darker skin need three times as much, and more if they are vegetarian. Of course those with lighter skin are poorly suited for tropical climates with abundant sunshine.
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One of two native strawberries, Fragaria virginiana,
that led to our hybridized garden strawberries. |
Your question/comment is also not good for challenging evolution because it ignores human modification of nature. For example, the strawberry as you know it didn't exist until the 18th century, when scientists in France crossed
Fragaria virginiana from the American colonies with
Fragaria chiloensis from Chile. It is considered a hybrid, because our North American native strawberries have an extra set of chromosomes and our garden strawberries would not exist in nature without the technology (human modification of the natural world) of plant breeding.
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| The many hard seeds of native bananas. |
The bananas we import throughout the year are also VERY different from the two species of wild bananas from which all cultivated bananas were bred by humans. Native bananas have very many, large, hard seeds (see photo at
http://goo.gl/n8KNL) Our cultivated bananas are grown asexually from shoot cuttings and cannot reproduce sexually.
Very few of our current foods are grown or used in their native state; most have been cultured to grow or live according to our needs.
Before the agricultural and industrial revolution, malnutrition occurred even among the wealthy. The human technology of canning to preserve seasonal foods was invented by Nicholas Appert in 1809 under an incentive by the French government, which needed a strategy to fight malnutrition for its navy ships. That is the primary means by which we can enjoy a balanced human diet throughout the winter in higher latitudes.
We have a funny situation right now in the U.S., where many school systems adopted a policy of serving only fruits and vegetables grown here, not realizing that would mean bananas could not be served any time of the year! It was very embarrassing to those who promoted the program. Fortunately, school kids can also get potassium from canned tomato paste, canned orange juice, canned white beans, and potatoes.
I hope this helps.
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