Posted on 08/18/2005 6:15:15 PM PDT by wagglebee
You know that TV crocodile hunting team Steve and Terri Irwin? Well those two can expect some competition in days to come. Scientists in northern Australia have been collecting blood from crocodiles in hopes of saving humans.
Studies in the late 90s showed that several antibodies in croc blood killed penicillin-resistant bacteria. More recently it has been discovered that crocodiles’ immune systems can kill the HIV virus. American scientist Mark Merchant says the reptiles “tear limbs off each other, [but] they heal up very rapidly and normally, almost always without infection.” Aussie scientist Adam Britton adds: “The crocodile has an immune system which attaches to bacteria and tears it apart and it explodes. It’s like putting a gun to the head of the bacteria and pulling the trigger.”
These two scientists draw blood from wild and captive crocs, saltwater and freshwater species. After capturing the donor, they strap its jaws and go for a vein. The vein, Britton says, is “called a sinus, right behind the head, and it’s very easy just to put a needle in the back of the neck and hit this sinus and then you can take a large volume of blood very simply.”
It’ll be years, of course, before croc blood is ready for human use. Their antibodies are so powerful they may have to be diluted. But this is pretty remarkable on two fronts. Once again, proof that embryonic stem cells aren’t the only “miracle” cure for all that ails us. And more importantly, understanding how crocodiles heal points to a pretty intelligent design in nature. Now when are the animal rights people going to start complaining to stop all of this?
Which ones did?
Romans 5:12-21
12. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned--
13. for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
14. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.
15. But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
16. Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
17. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
18. Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.
19. For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
20. The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
21. so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Do you believe that all humans came from The Adam and Eve???
Yes
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=2
bttt
Interesting, how come there are different races of people then, would that not require evolution???
As I said, if someone wants to take a book literally and not think about God's word, there's always Islam. Judaism and Christianity have never been about literalism, but about using the brain God gave man to understand faith, and learn the wonders of His creation. God didn't give us intelligence to not study His creation. Using the Bible to support the Bible is no different from using the Koran to support the Koran.
Circular reasoning: "I believe the Bible is literal truth because the Bible says it is literal truth." Something else you seem to have missed is that I DO NOT DENY GOD. I do not accept a literal interpretation of creation stories. As I have said before, religion is the "why" and science is the "how." Literalism is what closes our minds to the wonders of God's work, and breeds a willing ignorance for ideas different from our own and contempt for those who hold them. In so many ways Biblical literalists are not much different from Koranic literalists....both claim to have a lock on the truth, both want to suppress doctrines with which they disagree and both use their books to support their books ("It's true because it's in the Bible/Koran, and the Bible/Koran is true because it says so!"). I will credit Biblical literalists with one thing, though....they don't go around blowing people up. But just as I have no use for Wahabbi islam, I have equally no use for Wahabbi Christianity. God gave us a brain, and it's a slap in His face to not use it.
possibly or even probably...but people evolving from people is different than people evolving from slime.
Your choice to not think it His literal word is a tragedy.
Something else you seem to have missed is that I DO NOT DENY GOD.
Thats a statement that literally means nothing.
Hopefully someday you will come to trust God as your savior and rely on his Word.
I trust in Christ. It was He who died on the Cross of Calvary, and there is only confusion in the Bible to those who seek it. God gave us a brain for a reason, and I choose to rely on Christ, not a book for my salvation.
Relying on a book....sounds like some other well-known literalists.....hmmmmmmmmmmmm...........who might they be?
"possibly or even probably...but people evolving from people is different than people evolving from slime."
Genesis speaks of two different days of creation and on both days man was formed.
that's right. ADULT stem cells hold promise but not embryonic.
Apparently God loves some of His creations more than others.
He probably did at the beginning but the way we live and the way we eat has compromised our immune systems. Remember, we used to live, in the beginning, to be 900 years old or so. Now we're lucky to make it to 90.
Exactly! And they were very, very careful when these scriptures were copied not to make any errors. The old jot and tittle command, you know.
oh ok.
elsie, you're great! I love the ending chapters of Job, when God tells Job about all the things HE has done, compared to what man has done. It's my favorite part of the Bible.
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