Do you believe, as most Christians did a hundred years ago, that anesthesia during childbirth is immoral because women are meant to suffer?
If not, then tell me how religion conveys any absolute values, when practitioners of religion bend like the wind when medicine and technology provide cures for things that were originally attributed to original sin? Oddly enough, it is knowledge that provides these cures, and wasn't knowledge a key component of original sin?
If we are able to decide, independently of the Bible that slavery is evil and anesthesia is good, why are we still forbidden to see evidence that is before our eyes?
Here's the reason I ask. Elaine Morgan uses an evolutionary model but, as I see it, you don't have to be an evolutionist to buy into the basic part of her theories. I suspect she is almost certainly correct in thinking that modern humans originally lived in water. We seem to share any number of traits with the aquatic mammals, and with nothing else. Not having a fur coat on is an adaptation for living in reasonably warm water; it's a disadaptation for anything on land. Having our legs be the major limbs (as opposed to all apes and monkeys whose arms are the major limbs) is also an adaptation for swimming and wading. There's a great deal more.
That says also that the original human diet was some combination of shellfish and fruit which we'd walk up on shore to pick. Humans can get shellfish with their hands, and fish can't really do anything with shellfish.
It also says that all other taste in food are acquired tastes. In particular, it says that there is no rational reason to force kids to eat green vegetables.
The most basic rule of child nutrition as I see it is this: if the kid won't or can't eat it, the sum total nutritional value is zero. The whole world knows that a little kids basic reaction to alcohol and tobacco is correct; why would anybody think his reaction to green vegetables was wrong?
At least thank God at this point the Chinese have pretty much taught the world to cook broccali and some kinds of peas and beans so most pepole can eat them. When I was a kid, every woman in America was cooking peas and green beans into a sort of a green glue and trying to flavor the mess to taste like C rations and K rations (the food they grew up with and loved) and poison not only her own kids with it, but the neighbor kids too. It was pretty gross.
Thus I could understand it if Moses were to declare green beens to be verboten. But shellfish? That was in all likelihood the original human diet.