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To: Ready2go
Ok guys I'm just curious here...can anyone give me a example of how believing in the theory of evolution has resulted in any great inventions or cures? What are they?

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.

261 posted on 10/04/2005 10:57:07 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%; Ready2go
Ok guys I'm just curious here...can anyone give me a example of how believing in the theory of evolution has resulted in any great inventions or cures? What are they?

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.)

262 posted on 10/04/2005 12:32:37 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Disclaimer -- this information may be legally false in Kansas.)
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