Re: Odd how what was "nonsense" is now fact.
@Zolko
People trying to understand how the universe came to exist* & advancing human knowledge (even if many mistakes and blind alleys on the way) is, in my opinion, better than just
unquestioningly accepting whatever some book purportedly says about a magic man in the sky *** doing it all.
Questioning / investigation is why we advance our knowledge.
If you want to go back to "holy books", in the bible shellfish & pork were "unclean" (for dubious religious reasons) - but real reason was (most likely) due to higher likelihood of illness from eating those foodstuffs and so banning eating them helped the health of that religions followers. **** These days we know huge amounts about huge numbers of types of food poisoning***** related to shellfish & pork... and importantly how to mitigate that risk, through many methods including food storage / preparation / cooking methods ( e.g. cold storage a huge impact on reducing food poisoning, ) , time of year / water conditions when the food is harvested (e.g. responsible oyster harvesters avoid times of year when "red tide" i.e. high incidence of organisms likely to cause paralytic shellfish poisoning )
* even if our knowledge is currently very limited and our current theories will doubtless in years to come** cause the same sort of wry smile as those estimates of the age of the earth at being a few thousand years old
** assuming we do not succumb to natural / man made issues that screw up scientific advances.
*** plenty of religions out there, not sure why you chose phallocentric, monotheistic ones only
**** religion may be heavily about coercive control, but some of that may actually have been for the well being of the followers (though cynics may say that avoiding needless deaths just serves to keep the numbers up & grow the religion faster!)
***** using generic terminology of "food poisoning" as consuming something & then at some later point ill due to it - e.g. various parasitic worms a common cause of illness quite a while after eating pork but technically not "food poisoning" per se.