(August 2, 2023 at 3:08 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Why not? Maybe god wasn't there when it all began. Maybe gods an idiot. Maybe god likes to prank us.
Both of your plausibility cases were beliefs in ritual impurity - btw - not pathogens or medication. They can't really be wrong about either one.
You think that people back then didn't really think that those shamanic recepies were health-giving?