[Soliton]

you offer no evidence beyond the authority of an old book that doesn’t even mention that germs cause disease.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

the authority of an old book that doesn’t even mention that germs cause disease.

There is a passage in the Old Testament that promised the Israelites that if they abstained from eating swine, etc. etc. they would have NONE OF THESE DISEASES suffered by neighboring pagans.

There is a book by the title as well. I encourage you to get better acquainted with that Old Book, and especially its Author. (Free Bonus: In Job and in Proverbs are references to the earth being sperical.)

[driftdiver]

“you offer no evidence beyond the authority of an old book that doesn’t even mention that germs cause disease.”

There is a good joke about the typical evolutionary scientist. They studied hard and finally felt they could create life so they challenged God. Telling him they were as powerful as he and could create life out of dirt. So God told the scientist to show him.

The scientist picked up a handful and dirt and proceeded with his process. God stopped him and said “get your own dirt”.

The point is the universe is more complex than we can imagine. Yet we believe some scientist who gets lost driving across town when they say they understand it all. Hogwash.

[Nervous Tick]

>> you offer no evidence beyond the authority of an old book that doesn’t even mention that germs cause disease.

Look up the definition of “disease”.

Germs are not the only cause of human dis-ease (or “disease”, if you prefer), by a LONG shot.

And that only touches on physical disease. Spiritual disease is yet another matter, and even more important.

[unlearner]

“you offer no evidence beyond the authority of an old book that doesn’t even mention that germs cause disease.”

I am too busy to engage in these debates much lately, as they tend to consume an inordinate amount of time. But...

sometimes people say things like you did, from which I cannot restrain myself from replying.

Louis Pasteur debunked the popular “scientific” thinking of his day with his famous swan-neck flask experiment.

Pasteur was a contemporary of Darwin. And his views, like Darwin’s, would eventually become tremendously influential to biology. Yet, unlike Darwin, Pasteur regarded the accuracy of the Bible as foundational to his pursuits.

Pasteur’s experiment simultaneously debunked the popular myth of his day of so-called “spontaneous generation” and replaced it with the germ theory of disease.

It is highly significant that Pasteur was quite confident of being right before these tests because he based them on his confidence in the Bible.

In particular, he pointed out that God created life to reproduce after its own kind.

The evolutionist websites will touch on this little embarrassment by trying to rewrite history or by trying to examine the particulars of his theologies or human frailties. But the fact remains, he was a great scientist who not only believed the Bible, but based his scientific theories on it. And he gave us much more practical and useful scientific results than can be directly attributed to Darwin.