a question to farmers

[Pat Mustard]

That's just bible writers confusing selective breeding (or as I like to call it unnatural selection) for magic. That must mean that they never were involved in any kind of animal farming, so I must take back and apologise for characterising them as goat fuckers. Sorry idiots.

Bronze Age intellectuals?

No just a case of lucking into the correct technique but attributing it to a non-cause, the stick. Selective breeding is as old as agriculture and quite a few cultures hit upon it (some even realising it was the breeding wot did it).