(July 31, 2019 at 8:46 am)Brian37 Wrote:(July 31, 2019 at 8:27 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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.
But I can't think of any mythologies which tried to explain incest. Isn't it rather unfair to fault them for failing to do something they never attempted? Sort of like complaining that a billiards player is a failure at darts because he never attempted to play darts.
Boru
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