Ohmyscience
07-09-2008, 01:19 AM
“I can imagine how liquor was first discovered, but bread; how would that have come about?”, I remarked. She stared at me inquisitively. A faint smile, the kind that left the lips touching concealing her teeth, elevated her cheeks. I recall her having a nice set of teeth in well proportion but I wasn’t sure. I poured some more vodka into her glass.
“See with liquor if they just left some fruits or whatever you just wait for it to ferment. And if someone came back to it after it fermented and drank it for whatever reason they would be inebriated. So it’s perfectly reasonable for someone who enjoyed the sensation to reproduce it after the discovery. However with bread you don’t have that natural exposure.”
“That’s probably true. But who cares how it’s discovered. We can take it for granted that our ancestors were curious. And what do you mean bread doesn’t have that natural exposure? It’s probably a process of trial and error in which case it would have been discovered eventually.”, she replied. She drew her glass of vodka slowly to her mouth and slightly tilted the glass. She barely kissed the rim of the glass before she placed it back onto the table.
“Trial and error. But who would’ve thought? Between the hunting and the gathering is it reasonable that some Homo sapiens just decided to grind wheat and oats into powder, mixed it with water and yeast, placed it in a furnace and waited? I think you’re giving too much credit to our ancestors if you think they had that much patience.”
“That’s the only possible way to have happened.” She said affirming her logical stance. “Bread could have been evolutionary you know. First our hominid ancestors would have farmed wheat therefore that gave those who farmed specialized roles. The farmer then would experiment with the new food source. Before yeast I suppose you have the cracker. The fact that we have bread and liquor is proof that someone had to have discovered it. If it weren’t discovered we would just have something else to enjoy. So it’s not important really. Personally I prefer crackers and juice.”
“What do you mean not important? It’s extremely important. Salvation is on the line here.”, I said. I could not help but grin here and waited for a reply from her.
“How is salvation on the line?”
“Bread and liquor cover two of the miracles. Two out already a small sample size of miracles does not look favorable.”
“Well if you want the numbers then he would have just done two similar ones in their place. So with or without liquor and bread Christ would have performed those miracles.”
“You think? Maybe you like juice and crackers but I’m not impressed if Jesus turned water into juice and split the cracker into 5000 pieces.”
“See with liquor if they just left some fruits or whatever you just wait for it to ferment. And if someone came back to it after it fermented and drank it for whatever reason they would be inebriated. So it’s perfectly reasonable for someone who enjoyed the sensation to reproduce it after the discovery. However with bread you don’t have that natural exposure.”
“That’s probably true. But who cares how it’s discovered. We can take it for granted that our ancestors were curious. And what do you mean bread doesn’t have that natural exposure? It’s probably a process of trial and error in which case it would have been discovered eventually.”, she replied. She drew her glass of vodka slowly to her mouth and slightly tilted the glass. She barely kissed the rim of the glass before she placed it back onto the table.
“Trial and error. But who would’ve thought? Between the hunting and the gathering is it reasonable that some Homo sapiens just decided to grind wheat and oats into powder, mixed it with water and yeast, placed it in a furnace and waited? I think you’re giving too much credit to our ancestors if you think they had that much patience.”
“That’s the only possible way to have happened.” She said affirming her logical stance. “Bread could have been evolutionary you know. First our hominid ancestors would have farmed wheat therefore that gave those who farmed specialized roles. The farmer then would experiment with the new food source. Before yeast I suppose you have the cracker. The fact that we have bread and liquor is proof that someone had to have discovered it. If it weren’t discovered we would just have something else to enjoy. So it’s not important really. Personally I prefer crackers and juice.”
“What do you mean not important? It’s extremely important. Salvation is on the line here.”, I said. I could not help but grin here and waited for a reply from her.
“How is salvation on the line?”
“Bread and liquor cover two of the miracles. Two out already a small sample size of miracles does not look favorable.”
“Well if you want the numbers then he would have just done two similar ones in their place. So with or without liquor and bread Christ would have performed those miracles.”
“You think? Maybe you like juice and crackers but I’m not impressed if Jesus turned water into juice and split the cracker into 5000 pieces.”