Originally posted by RJHinds
My wife is just fine, now. Her treatments are over and she only has
to take a pill for the next five years to prevent the cancer from
returning. God provided doctors that believed in God and the power
of prayer for her treatment.
Well I am very pleased to hear that, but she is only cured, because of science and scientific enquiry.
Nowhere in the bible does it tell you how to cure cancer.
And until science broke off the shackles of religious dogma and developed the technology, knowledge
and medicine that we have today, and all we had was prayer and faith in god, cancer was a death sentence.
It isn't (always) any more because we have discovered things and developed technology that allows us to
fight it.
And a big part of the technology and medicine that was used, is based on evolutionary biology, and the
physics of the standard model, the big bang theory.
Science works, and you may well thank god that it did. But that's an insult to every scientist who dedicated their
lives to discovering the knowledge and developing the technology that enabled your wife to be cured.
If they all still believed in YEC, and creationism, we wouldn't have the treatments we have now.
And the consequences of that you can figure out yourself.
When I talk about the dangers of blind faith and religion and the rejection of rationality....
THIS is what I am talking about.
So go on believing your fairy tale if it makes you happy, and pray to your imaginary god that people keep rejecting
your religion and keep working to cure diseases like cancer. Because science is the only thing that has any track record
of actually working.