Posted on 11/08/2009 10:25:52 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Good neighborhoods provide families a lot of protection, but even the best of communities remain vulnerable to the threat of criminals invading their homes. Our human bodies are also vulnerable to foreign invaders such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. But when these infection-causing microbes break in where they don't belong, they face a serious defense force, eventually to be caught and destroyed by a highly trained, cell-sized army equipped with a sophisticated array of weaponry. That security force is called the human immune system. Designed with amazingly dynamic communication networks that pass information back and forth between hundreds of millions of cells, the human immune system strategically fights off microscopic invaders and remembers them each time they attack the body...
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Ping!
Very poetic.
Looks like a lot of completely wasted effort. Necessary to “create” the defensive system? Certainly not - it would be just enough NOT TO CREATE these “foreign invaders such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites”. :)
Add to that the fact that our puny immune system really isn't a match for the world's most-virulent pathogens, which is why so many poor, innocent babies used to die of Diphtheria, Pneumonia, etc.
Then along came man-made miracle drugs like the Sulfa drugs, antibiotics, etc., as well as inoculations against Polio, Small Pox, etc.
Regards,
Why did God make viruses and parasites?
—to say nothing of the internal varieties, such as cancer, diabetes, Parkinsons, etc., etc.,-—
A swiss security force maybe. (ie, armed citizenry)
Neat picture of a Garand at the link.
The Bible tells us that all of creation was originally created good. Sin, disease, sickness and death came after the Fall.
I was admiring that myself :o)
Wouldn't want to live forever, would ya?
Evolution would not work if we lived forever. Was that God's plan?
“The Bible tells us that all of creation was originally created good. Sin, disease, sickness and death came after the Fall.”
I ask this question with NO sarcasm and not with the intent to challenge. I’m seriously curious and looking for clarification.
But where in the Bible does it specifically say this? OT or New? I’d really like to read this for myself.
I’ve heard this before, but have never been able to find the specific reference.
Thank you.
Oh. God created viruses AFTER Adam ate the apple?
That's a statement filled with speculation and hope.
Where did you get that? That means that viruses were originally created good, and then mutated so that some of them became harmful. When I say “some of them”, you do know that many viruses are completely harmless don’t you?
Where in the Bible does it tell us that sin and disease came after the fall?
Ah, viruses evolved to attack humans. Thank you.
A brief, but useful, explanation of how the immunde system works can be found at www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/.../immunesystem -,
it’s about three dozen slides with descriptions.
Read Genesis 1, and you will find that God repeatedly refers to the original creation as “good.” In Genesis 3 you will find that all creation was cursed because of the Fall. This curse, is repeated many times throughout both the Old and New Testaments.
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