From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 7 0: 8:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1162037B401 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC22343E65 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:08:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0057.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.57] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17nZhr-0004d3-00; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:08:36 -0700 Message-ID: <3D79A5B8.C6176B8E@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:07:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: "Neal E. Westfall" , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <20020906155919.A6312@FreeBSD.org> <20020906092136.L94577-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> <20020907001514.GA15779@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-09-06 10:02 +0000, Neal E. Westfall wrote: > > The reason not all of the laws written in Leviticus are any longer > > applicable is that they had a theological purpose. > > That's so convenient, isn't it? IMO, they had practical purpose. You can always trace taboos back to community experiential knowledge. I rather think the pork taboo was rooted in disease avoidance, since there are a lot of diseases that cross species boundaries with pork, if it is not prepared properly. Lacking sufficient foundation to discover what "properly" was, the taboo was established (there are alternate theories; that oneis merely the simplest). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message