Clothing and Evolution

The Evolutionist who reads Genesis 3 carefully might notice what seems to have usually been overlooked in not only the popular understanding, but in the Literalist interpretation of this pivotal passage--that the first application of Human Knowledge is to the manufacture of clothing, i. e. to "girdles" made of "fig-leaves", which were specifically "sewed".  In other words, the proto-Human act in this presumed anti-Evolutionist account of Human History involves the use of the distinctive Human thumb to compensate for the lack of fur that most other species enjoy.  Thus, the clothing industry is born, a simple version of the more complex processes to come, processes that have been increasing in both efficiency and effectiveness--in the former case, from a quantity of two products to quantities in the thousands, and the latter case, incorporation of materials from fig-leaves to cotton to the nylon in spacesuits.  Now, except in the case of Adam and Eve, the manufacturers of clothing have themselves been clad.  Hence, the production of clothing has been a means to not merely its consumption, but to the further production of clothing.  But this circularity is not the vicious one that Marx seeks to eliminate--the circle of consumption that barely suffices for a return to another day of drudgery.  This pattern is, rather, that of a virtuous evolving spiral, which typifies the concept of Economics as a means to Evolving, including the Evolution of Economics itself.  And, the initial stages of the pattern can be found in the heart of the document that is generally conceived to be antithetical to Evolutionism.