Fun fact: he wanted to study mice breeding but the church said no because it was lewd. If he had he probably wouldn’t have figured things out since mice genetics aren’t as simple as peas.
I’m wondering, how come studying mice breeding was considered lewd when humans had already been breeding a variety of livestock (and selecting traits at this) for thousands of years?
presumably just status quo bias, we’ve always done this so that’s obviously fine, but this NEW thing is horrendous and must never be done
I think it was just the idea of this friar watching mice fuck seemed pornographic in a way. I don’t think maintaining mice colony was the issue, it was the sex.
Organized religion isn’t always rational.
Imagine being the person in charge. You all are bound to celibacy, so you’ve seen and heard hushed tales of all kinds of …interesting side effects from living in that state for years.
This guy walks in and makes his sales pitch. He wants to keep mice in the monestary. And have them get it on. Mostly under his personal observation. For science. Totally not some odd perversion, promise.
I would have my doubts too!
When they said he was a friar in Bio, for some reason I thought he came from waaaaay earlier in history.
Also, I don’t know why, but I found this, and it’s amazing:
That, or this version of the simulation got very, very lucky.
