Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA06225 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:38:39 GMT Message-ID: <006301c05467$d95588c0$2bfd883e@yrjpxhha> From: "Matthew Moore" <ticking_fool@yahoo.com> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <A4400389479FD3118C9400508B0FF230041102@DELTA.newhouse.akzonobel.nl> Subject: Re: religion/spirituality Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:36:42 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> But is that really a fair analogy? Pathogens can suddenly
become airborne,
> the best example is the evolution of airborne pneumonic
plague from the
> non-airborne bubonic variety, and also syphilis changed
from a surface
> contact skin disease to the genito-urinary route. AIDS
has only been in
> humans for some few decades, so it's a very young virus.
Judaism has been
> around for several millenia (and 2.5 millenia in its
modern form). Surely,
> if the viral model really applies to religions, somewhere
in that vast time
> span the requisite change would have taken place?
>
Perhaps that just means that the requisite change was to
Christianity.
Matt
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