(March 1, 2021 at 10:06 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: The medical literature is full of examples (genetic or otherwise) of failed reductions in complexity. Mutations often result in loss of proper functioning rather than alterations. That is why there are many vestigial organs.
Nature is full of living beings who have organs on different levels of development, as the eye: with some animals having eyes reduced (missing components) compared to other animals. The same goes for other organs like the heart, brain, lungs, etc.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
