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Quote by Yuval Noah Harari
English (Source)
No culture has ever bothered to forbid men from photosynthesizing, women from running faster than light, or negatively charged electrons from attracting each other. Our concepts of "natural" and "unnatural" actually do not come from biology, but from certain theological theories. The theological meaning of natural is "consistent with the purposes of God who created nature." According to Christian theologians, God created the human body, who intended each limb, each organ for a certain purpose. Using our body parts for God's intended purpose is natural behavior. Using them contrary to God's purpose is unnatural. However, evolution has no intention. Organs are indeed developed for a certain function, but once they exist, they can also adapt to other uses. Mouths, for example, evolved because the first multicellular organisms had to somehow get nutrients into their bodies. We still use our mouths for this purpose today, but we also use them for kissing, talking, and, if we're Rambo, pulling the safety pin out of a hand grenade. Are any of these unnatural just because our worm-like ancestors didn't do such things with their mouths for 600 million years?