Are You My Mother?

I turned on King Kong somewhere in the middle so I could be entertained while folding some laundry and had some interesting insights. First, I was really surprised at the obvious lay-overs--what are they called? melding of two images. The line "No one will believe these aren't real" was hilarious. Then, do people survive if they get caught in the middle of an elephant stampede? How on earth did only 4 not live through a stampede of brontosauruses, in a narrow ravine, where they all ended up piling on top of each other? Seriously.

But the most interesting observation came when they switched over to the King Kong dude with the woman. I couldn't help but think as the big ape loomed over her that people think we descended from this species. How on earth did that happen? I'm guessing King Kong is probably a man, but still the phrase "Are you my mother?" came to mind. Seriously. As the book goes, when the object or being doesn't respond in the language of the baby, the answer is no.

I read or heard once that Adam and Eve were two of the most if not the most robust people ever to live--physically just about perfect, exactly what was needed to begin the human race. So, how could apes have progressed to a perfect physical state only to have the human form gradually become not so perfect? It just doesn't make sense. I'm definitely no biologist or great student of the possibilities of evolution. I remember reading some proven scenarios of survival of the fittest such among some butterfly species, but I'm not so sure that can really explain progression to the perfect state. Anyone? Something just doesn't add up.