That psychedelic plants and mushrooms is passive evidence of an Omniscient creator. (only a higher being or an higher mind would create psychedelic mushrooms) apart from ToE.
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@Beccs
If you read the 1960 the foreward to Robert Graves's "The Greek Myths", he suggests that many of the visions, hallucinations and prophetic insights of the ancient Greek religions are down to the use of "amanita muscaria" or other hallucinagenic mushrooms!
There you have it; god is a mushroom!
Um, no... it's evidence that the plants and mushrooms in question are under threat from things that eat them and so produce toxins.
Psilocybe mushrooms grow in places where there tend to be lots of insects. The produce, among other things, psilocybin. If an insect consumes psilocybin, guess what happens?
It's nervous system fries, and it dies, either immediately or by being unable to evade a predator soon after. In either case, the mushroom creates a selective pressure in its niche favoring insects that don't eat mushrooms.
If you put enough psilocybin into your own nervous system, it will also get fried in very much the same way that an insect's does. If you have to run away from a hungry lion, it's best not to do it while tripping on mushrooms, right? The only thing that saves you from an immediately lethal dose is your body mass; psilocybin is a defense against insects, so it's not potent enough to kill humans unless the human goes out of its way to consume tremendous qualities of the stuff.
On the other hand, bad logic and silly notions of divine beings in the sky whipping up fungi that grow on cow shit so that people can get high are evidence that this person's nervous system might already be fried, so I guess a little more damage really doesn't matter.
So why go to all the trouble of creating all those other mushrooms that just kill you, or paralyze you, or cause blindness?
And why put them in pretty much the same place as the cool psychedelic ones? Isn't that like dropping food parcels and land mines in exactly the same packaging?
What kind of sick bastard does that?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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