If mankind lived the way God tells us to live and if mankind would simply stop doing all the stupid things he/she does (pollution, making unnatural chemicals, eating unnatural foods etc). It would practically (if not completely) eliminate the need for science to find cures.
Mankind creates his own damn problems and then he/she wonders why we have so many diseases.
Ironic.
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Why do these assholes despise the sciences so much?
"If mankind lived the way God tells us to live"
What do you mean,"unnatural food"?
1) We are human
Tang is a natural
Just not good food.
Good Googly Moogly!
1. We would not have any cars or aircraft dumbass without the polluting Internal Combustion Engine. We need to figure out clean tech and renewable fuel rather than ditch them.
2. Making Unnatural Chemicals. Like what? We don't make "unnatural" chemicals. Krypton has nothing to do with Kryptonite!
3. Unnatural foods. I personally eat plants and animals. Don't know what you are eating.
You are using the Alanis Morissette version of Ironic. Amusing thing is that science has tripled our life expectancy from around 25 to 30 years to 75 to 85 years.
Irony is that you are wailing on science on one of the biggest pieces of SCIENCE ever created.
That's why we die so much earlier than our forefathers, why we have more disease, why.....
Oh wait, we don't, we just have more time to whine about it.
Funny you posting this, while sitting in your house, made with synthetic materials, typing away on a computer, wearing that cotton/poly blend shirt, and being vaccinated/immunized from all sorts of nasty diseases.
Hypocrite much?
You object to unnatural things?
Do you eat your meat raw and sleep in a tree?
[Sometimes, I have to quote Terry Pratchett. That particular quote is from The Fifth Elephant.]
Fundie's response: God made diseases to punish us/gays/feminists/n***ers!!!
Rationalist's response: Well, don't you think that the fact we've been around at least for the last 100,000 and become one of the more dominant species on Earth that microorganisms wouldn't evolve to take advantage of the bonanza that is our bodies?
The further back in history you go you will find two things:
1. A greater degree of religious faith i.e. the difference in faith levels between the 21st century and the 15th.
2. Higher levels of premature death due to disease.
In fact (if I remember my history correctly at this late hour) it was during the Dark Ages--the time of the greatest power of the Church and of ironclad faith on the part of believers--that a single disease wiped out roughly 3/4 of the Eurpean population. I'm sure you must have heard of the Bubonic Plague.
Conversely the futher mankind has moved away from blind faith and toward science the healthier we have become. The average Human height has increased by at least 4 inches. Infant mortality rates have dropped from 1 out of 3 (roughly) to single digits. The average Human lifespan has been vastly increased; rather than being exhausted and near death at 30-40 we now have 70 year old men learning how to skydive.
You f***ing dumbass.
3/4? Not even close, man!
1/3 yes, that's about it.
Sure, that's why people in the Middle Ages or in the Bronze Age, so religious as they were, lived so healthy.
Ah yes, if only we could go back to a time before pollution, "unnatural chemicals" and "unnatural foods". Say perhaps, the middle ages? This was of course also a time before scientific medicine, so it provides an excellent indication of what a pro god / anti science attitude to health care would look like. And anyone who studied the middle ages at school can tell you that they were not healthy times.
if mankind would simply stop doing all the stupid things he/she does (pollution, making unnatural chemicals, eating unnatural foods etc). It would practically (if not completely) eliminate the need for science to find cures.
Tell me again, what was happening in Europe from 1347 - 1353? Something called the "Black Death", one of the most devastating pandemies in human history. Killing around 50% of Europe's whole population. Caused by a bacterium which can be treated nowadays quite easily with antibiotics (brought to you by SCIENCE). There was surely no pollution at that time, no unnatural chemicals, people were eating naturally grown foods.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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