Posted on 10/01/2005 5:09:16 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
I'll bite. I'll try and come up with a few quick ones. Others can join in later.
Antibiotics, vaccines (polio, whooping cough, hepatitis B etc.), treatments (for cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, etc.), all diagnostic testing (HIV, hepatitis, cancer, pregnancy, etc.), pre-natal care (mother's habits & nutrition), treatments for premature births, gene therapies, adult stem cell treatments, and surgical techniques of all kinds.
This gets easier if I list things at high level because the details just go on and on.
I've already responded with links to a few item, but now I want to add something. Merely believing in the theory doesn't result in any inventions; nor does merely believing in scripture. Inventions are the result of actually doing some work, based on an intellectual framework. The track record of people working within the methods of science is too well-known to require examples. But I'm wondering what inventions have resulted from following the intellectual methods of theology? (I already know that religious people can do scientific work; I'm asking what inventions result from theology itself.)
Thank you very much Patrick and <1/1,000,000th%...I know things can get very heated over this subject. That's a shame.
And that's exactly what I was getting at Patrick...none of these wonderful things would have been possible without the Intellegence behind them.
So whether you believe you evolved or were created wouldn't have helped or hindered with any of our wonderful scientific discoveries.
The Time of the End
Daniel 12
1 “At that time Michael, the archangel who stands guard over your nation, will arise. Then there will be a time of anguish greater than any since nations first came into existence. But at that time every one of your people whose name is written in the book will be rescued.
2 Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 Those who are wise will shine as bright as the sky, and those who turn many to righteousness will shine like stars forever.
4 But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end. Many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.”
God inspired these folks with ideas that they worked on and figured out. He's the one that gave them wisdom and knowledge.
None of these things wonderful things evolved by themselves.
God loves all of us and doesn't want anyone to be lost, so he's given mankind the wisdom and knowledge to stop folks from dying, and allowed them to come back and tell us everything they've seen when they were legally dead.
Luke 16 The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 Jesus said, “There was a certain rich man who was splendidly clothed and who lived each day in luxury.
20 At his door lay a diseased beggar named Lazarus.
21 As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man’s table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores.
22 Finally, the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried,
23 and his soul went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham.
24 “The rich man shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in these flames.’
25 “But Abraham said to him, ‘son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish.
26 And besides, there is a great chasm separating us. Anyone who wanted to cross over to you from here is stopped at its edge, and no one there can cross over to us.’
27 “Then the rich man said, ‘Please, Father Abraham, send him to my father’s home.
28 For I have five brothers, and I want him to warn them about this place of torment so they won’t have to come here when they die.’
29 “But Abraham said, ‘Moses and the prophets have warned them. Your brothers can read their writings anytime they want to.’
30 “The rich man replied, ‘No, Father Abraham! But if someone is sent to them from the dead, then they will turn from their sins.’
31 “But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they won’t listen even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Thanks once again guys for responding. And I know I won't be able to change your beliefs, but hopefully some lurkers might decide to check the Bible out for themselves. :)
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