In a message dated 7/8/99 3:09:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> My definition of religion is "your world view"
>
>  Paleos had a world view.
>
>  It also is relevant since everyone, even
>  an avowed secularist or athiest, has a world view.
>
>
>  R. Keene
>

With all due respect to you, your first line says it best...
...YOUR DEFINITION....I have a different definition of religion.
As I am sure most people do.

 My original comment is in
regards to "modern" religions, that is those that have existed
only 5000yrs at most, and some much less.  Why do people
 put those values on
something so far before it's time as to not even be related.

Regardless of what you believe, I am hard pressed to believe
that any biblical reference, however beneficial to man kind, has
any relevance to what was going on 40,000+ years ago.

I don't want to get into a "Is there a God?" discussion, I'll
save that for the Mensa chat room.  But if we are going to
go back as far as we are for our nutrition, then one has to
wonder why some would choose to look at something written
so recently as the bible.  It seems to me that to do that, would
be no different than choosing something written *now* on nutrition,
and saying that it is superior to what we did 100k yrs ago, but
for the fact that it was authored by "divine" men.
And haven't we already decided that paleo is superior?

If you are going to believe that the bible is the word of a god that
you choose to worship, then do so.  The bible is not paleo. It is
full of references to neolithic foods, and is decidedly absent any
information about mankind during paleolithic times, and farther
for that matter.

From what I understand, during the times of Jesus Christ, that is
ancient Egypt and Rome, the health of the people was very bad.
I think everyone here knows about the diseases suffered by the
Egyptians as a result of a neolithic diet.

I do not believe that god and evolution are mutually exclusive.
Don't get me wrong. The body and the spirit could very well
have been seperated at some point.  But for something spiritual
to spill over into the physical, to the point where my body's fuel
is concerned, it will have to have better references than "because
the creator said so".

I hope I don't offend.  I referred to Christianity, but this could apply
to any other religions.  I respect everyones right to spirituality, no
matter what form that comes in, and would fight to defend it, but
I am having a hard time seeing the relevance in this case.

Anna L. Abrante
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