I have a better question... Do animals hee and haw or bitch and moan like a human female when bearing their offspring? I can't say as that I've personally witnessed animals giving birth but I have watched Clakrson's Farm recently and did not note any signs of discomfort coming from a heifer while giving birth. I've never really thought about this before but this could be a relatable piece of evidence of the truth of the bible for some people.
Sometimes mammals will have a difficult birth because of a turned infant coming out the wrong way or occasionally the mother will just be exhausted and have weakness.
Generally speaking most animals just drop eggs with little to no fuss or they give live birth and keep walking, I haven't seen what goes on with apes or monkeys or lemurs.
There's a clip in the first 20 seconds of where the mother doesn't look distressed at all. Sort of just looks like a video of someone taking a shit in the streets of San Francisco the way she's got herself propped up on that ledge. Evaluating this piece of evidence I will conclude that other primates do indeed not toil during childbirth anything like humans which is conformation of what is said in Genesis 3.
If I were more motivated I'd snip a vid of a human giving birth (off painkillers preferably) with this video and then maybe a video of someone shitting in the street just for comparison's sake to illustrate God's proclamation in effect.
I'm not one to disagree with the book of genesis but the secular explanation for painful childbirth in humans is that we evolved to walk upright and that narrowed the birth canal. Personally I don't think walking up right on it's own provides enough of an evolutionary advantage over say the ambulation of other apes that it justifies the cost from the perspective of evolutionary psychology, it seems the males might shag a bit more but the females would be fighting off males after they had their first. Also the evolutionary perspective on early social structures indicates to me that females wouldn't have the necessary support to continue the genetic line. Between these anecdotes and the the fused chromosome I'm convinced humans are the product of a higher power's handy work before even getting into faith.
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