I can't imagine how anyone would survive 600 lashes, if they are being delivered on a single occasion. I am thinking that the only thing a medical person could do is verify that the person was dead, and try to identify which internal organs remained intact, if any.
Who came up with these punishments, Mel Gibson?
Who came up with these punishments, Mel Gibson?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
