Talk:Abomination

This is now a useful article, so should we move it to the mainspace? ħuman 17:41, 1 September 2008 (EDT)

Yes, I think so. Totnesmartin 18:05, 1 September 2008 (EDT)

Questions

With regards to point 12

Are allotments an abomination? Or orchards with a ground crop planted between the trees?

Is there a theological argument against GMO crops (as genes from different plants are 'mixed')? Anna Livia (talk) 15:51, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

A generous reading would say no for allotment, yes for orchard. I remember doing the "same species vs different species competition" experiment in high school biology, and two different species of plant completed with each other far more than two of the same species of plant. It's reasonable to infer that early Jewish Farmers found their fields underproduced when "mixing seeds" but didn't have a coherent theory of why and invented this "abomination" as a goddidit thing. So if we're being as generous as possible, we'd say they were forbidding heterogeneous sowing. Having neighboring fields with different crops wouldn't fit that model.

And as to the "is there a theological argument for" you can just stop the sentence there and say "yes". Theology can be used to argue anything. ikanreed ^{🐐Bleat at me} 16:01, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

I was thinking more of eg this - and to what extent are the soils of the relevant geographical areas nutrient poor (so the several crops grown together rather than rotated would exhaust the soil even faster)?

The theology against GMO argument is a case of 'pretzelling the pretzelisation of the proponents's theologies.' (And it is remarkably odd that those who know the Deity's intentions better than the Deity does tend to go for the more brimstone-and-abomination interpretations - rather than eg 'God created the world and thought it was good, so if we enjoy the world and do our best to keep it going, we are doing God's will.') Anna Livia (talk) 16:31, 24 April 2019 (UTC)