Paleo is the answer because of Occam's Razor*-
 everyone at Mensa knows that.

God doesn't always shave with Occam's
Razor...................................




But she always does her legs with it!


Ben Balzer

*- "The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be
correct." http://www.public.iastate.edu/~physics/sci.physics/faq/occam.html

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Keene <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 8:23 AM
Subject: [P-F] Paleo and religion - world view


> I changed the Subject from
> Ethic Thoughts was: ovo-lactation diet--help?
>
> hmm,
>
> > the Mensa chat room.
>
> How many on this list are members of Mensa?
> I am.
>
> Also,
> You may be confusing results with cause.
> Just because a Paleo diet has empirical evidence that
> it is better, does not mean that the premise it is based on
> is correct.  For example in my opinion the ER4YT diet
> is based on incorrect premises, yet the type O
> version of it gets good results and matches a Paleo diet.
>
> Just because Paleo works and is derrived
> from evolutionary concepts, does not mean that
> the evolutionary explanation of it is the correct
> reason for why it works.  An alternate religious
> or creationist viewpoint could say that God created
> us to survive in the varied situations on the Earth
> and thus a hunter-gatherer diet is correct.
>
> Same results, different reasoning.
>
> (And yes, this IS on topic)
>
> R. Keene