(July 31, 2019 at 8:27 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 31, 2019 at 7:22 am)Brian37 Wrote: Evolution in all life works better with diversity. And chemically speaking genetically related family actually produce pheromones that are a chemical scent mammals give off noting relationships. And just like other mammals, like elephants and lions, they too seek outside the family. Incest while not physically impossible is not advantageous to spreading genes.
There are even with adults moral and ethical reasons outside evolution we tend to avoid it. But old books of mythology do nothing at all to explain human behavior. Trying to explain human behavior with an old book of mythology, is like trying to explain astrophysics with astrology.
Evolutionary biology, human psychology are better ways of saying why most humans avoid incest.
The evolution argument is largely beside the point, as the issue is incest, not procreation.
The 'old book of mythology' argument is simply wrong, as most mythologies take a pretty relaxed view of incest.
Boru
No, that is the point.
The old mythologies ARE relaxed, no kidding. My point is it still doesn't matter. Old books of mythology do not explain in any modern scientific manor why humans behave the way they do.
The bible has stories of daughters fucking their dad. Ancient Egyptians also fucked within the family to keep the bloodline pure. Caligula was fascinated with them, and even fucked his own sister.
None of that regardless is a modern understanding of human behavior. They are still the bad guesses humans made because they did not have the benefit of modern science.
Even on other topics, superstitions existed worldwide in antiquity. Even with no connection humans made similar bad guesses to things as to what seeing comets meant.
I am not limiting my criticism to just the bible. Nobody worldwide back then, had any modern knowledge as to what we know now. So it would not matter to me if that mythology was for or against anything. It is still a superstitious gap answer.
