I wish more doctors\sciencetist would look to the Bible for answers. Our God left us everything we would ever need to know in one book !
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Okay, so all the answers are in the Bible? If that is true, then I must go with Red Sun Rising ... if the answer is 42, please tell me where in your "answer book?" is the ultimate questions?
Well praise the lord - everything is just fine and rinky dinky...
I can just see the scene down in CDC Atlanta - a new haemorrgagic virus has hit the streets. Incubation period, 6 hours. It's 99% fatal within 12 hours. It's airborne and infects via the nasal passage, buccal cavity and even through the ears...
Who ya gonna call?
"I have the answer guys! Let's all read the bible!"
Our God left us everything we would ever need to know in one book !
Really? Could you perhaps give me the book, chapter, and verse that contains the answers for my Chemistry exam?
The only even remotely 'medical' (sorry for using the term so loosely) thing that can be considered factual as opposed to fictional and horribly wrong, in the entire bible... Is that women are the ones who get pregnant and give birth.
And even then, I wouldn't be surprised if the bible's iffy even there.
Yeah, if I ever need a lesson on stoning, plaguing, crucifying, or performing other hideous acts on people...I'll for sure know where to look.
What section, then, of the bible discusses Addison's Disease? Specifically it's diagnostic criteria and treatment?
Hint: without treatment, it's 100% fatal, and very quickly.
Well, turtlegal, why don't you just crawl back into your shell and hide. You are obviously not ready for the truth-- and that is the bible is nothing but gibberish and make-believe. THAT'S why doctors and scientists don't look to the bible for answers, dumb ass.
Fundieism in a Nutshell?
The Bible does not have the answer to everything. I'm a Christian and even *I* realise this. Refer to it for questions about faith, Jesus or worship, but for God sake, it doesn't have an answer for everything little problem. It was written in an era when we didn't have modern medicine, and therefore, doesn't provide cures to all known ailments and illnesses. If you're ill, go to a fucking doctor.
Where's the Mad Cow Disease section?
Sadly, this doesn't cure psychosis due to religion, only aids it.
Oh really?
Do you own a copy of your local Yellow Pages? A road atlas? Instruction manuals for any of your appliances? A Dictionary?
Next time, think before you say something stupid.
@Flatworm: You are, of course, assuming that Turtlegal can think. I know - it's such a reasonable assumption to make but incorrect all the same.
Anyways, Turdle-head, how's this for you:
Penicillin, the most useful antibiotic in the world (and unless you're allergic to it, you've needed it before) - not in the Bible.
Caesarean Section, the means by which you were likely born - not in the Bible.
The various vaccines you've had which have kept you from catching some horrible but preventable disease - not in the Bible.
Blood transfusions to save your life if you ever need one - not in the Bible.
Modern standards of clinical sterility which keep all of said procedures from killing you outright - not in the Bible.
You fail.
"If thy eye offends thee, pluck it out."
Thanks, I'll pass...got some sciencetific eyedrops around here somewhere...developed by a scientician...
To quote a great philosopher:
"This book doesn't have any answers!"
Another one of his great quotes:
"D'oh!"
Except aspirins, Surgical equipment, antibiotics, radars, computers................
Okay, you guys obviously don't get it. The reason that no cures or treatments is because all of these maladies are God's will! A massive infection? Well obviously it's god punishing you for your sinful behavior. Cancer? It's God's way of telling you that he wants you to return to him...even if it's done in an agonizingly slow and painful way. And of course, euthanasia is playing God, so you have to let it play out...not to mention hooking said person up to life support for months after s/he should have been gone anyways...that's not playing God at ALL! So why would we desire to find a way to circumnavigate God's will? He obviously knows what's best for all of us...right?
SARCASM, JUST IN CASE ANYONE MISSED THAT FACT.
Our God left us everything we would ever need to know in one book !
I appreciate your stand there. That probably also means your children will never reach the educational standard to compete with my children for well paid positions on the job market.
Y'know, Chairman Mao actually had all the answers in one book too, although he actually prevented people from reading anything else.
Hell you're holy babble doesnt even teach you how to farm! If it weren't for other people who have read a lot more books than your uneducated ass has you'd be flatout screwed.
Find in the bible the place where he gives the formula of nitrate fertilizers, which feed a good portion of the world populaton today (by increasing crop yields to modern levels, which allows us to feed 7 billion human beings).
It is definitely something we need to even survive wih the numbers we are now, and I bet you won't find it in the bible.
Well, it's even worse. Many things in the bible are in direct contradiction to our modern medical knowledge. Would one live according to certain biblical advice, he would put his life in grave danger.
Example: Mark 7.
Jesus preaches here that it is not necessary to wash hands, pots and cups before eating. His (totally faulty) argument: "Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him" (Mark 7:18)
A disastrous advice; especially in the sanitary conditions of ancient Judea.
Perhaps you would like to explain to me where in the Bible, the specifics of ionizing radiation are explained. Or how to TIG weld without oxidizing light metals? Where's the cure for cancer (Hint: It's not prayer)? Where's Newton's law clarified? Where is Pi at? And don't say "3", because the Bible provides that particular erroneous "answer".
Go and sit in the corner. Adults are at work.
“I wish more doctors\sciencetist would look to the Bible for answers.”
For your colonoscopy, would you want your doctor to clean the probe, and his hands, with antiseptic?
Or cleanse it of evil spirits with lark’s tongue and hyssop?
Or, hell, just tell me which verse suggests that surgical tools should be cleaned at least weekly, if not between any two patients?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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