This is a late recognition, but I want to point out that Serge at [Imago Dei](http://www.imago-dei.net/imago_dei/) has a really good blog going on. Dentist by day, crack philosopher by night, Serge has provided a lot of grist for the mill since I started checking him out.
I’m starting to realize that “Imago Dei” is more than just the name of the blog. It’s actually the focal point of everything that he writes about on it. *Imago Dei* is the technical term for the doctrine that man is created in the image of God, with the implication that we each have intrensic value and certain characteristics that separate us from the rest of creation. Among these characteristics would be reason, an ethical sense, and certain inalienable rights. So we get discussion on creation vs. evolution, abortion and other human rights issues.
He gets added to the Religion category, which is now too cumbersome and needs to be divided into subcategories.
I have only one disappointment: Never once have I seen a thoroughgoing discussion on why it is that ***everyone*** has to get their wisdom teeth removed.
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this may be a sidebar but when I was pregnant with “someone” I read a book, the title of which, was something like don’t have ugly kids and it dealt with all manner of ugliness [physical & behavioral]. That book which was either written in the late 70’s or early 80’s [depending upon whom I was pregnant with] documented the changes in facial structure of the Alaskan Indian tribes as their diet began to incorporate more processed foods. The book showed two sisters. the Elder whose development came before the change in diet had the traditional broad face. The younger had a much more narrow jaw — and trouble with her wisdom teeth.
I’ve never read any other research on the long term effects of sugar & white flour on facial structure so I don’t know how accurate this is — but the writer made a good case.
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Most wisdom teeth are extracted because modern humans have upper and lower jaws that are too small to hold them. The result is infection, cyst formation, and damage to adjacent teeth (the 2nd molars). The younger you are when they are removed, the easier the surgery, the less the risks, and the quicker you recover. Oh yea, I also need to make a living. 🙂
Why do we have them? The most commmon explanation is the change in our diets in the last 1000-500 years have resulted in a lack of growth in our jaws. A result of evolution? Kind of – my answer to that is here (http://www.imago-dei.net/imago_dei/2005/03/the_loss_of_wis.html)
Thank you so much for the kind words. I’m glad I’m off probabtion!
Serge
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