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To: thomaswest
Well, should we permit teaching the theory of demon possession in medical school as an equal to pneumococcal infection in diagnosing pneumonia?

No, but I think we would be MUCH worse off if ONE treatment for pneumonia was accepted at ALL medical schools and ANY researcher or professor who even thought about questioning the "approved treatment" risked having his career and/or funding eliminated.

165 posted on 06/22/2006 7:02:59 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (Freerepublic - The website where "Freepers" is not in the spell checker dictionary...)
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To: Onelifetogive
No, but I think we would be MUCH worse off if ONE treatment for pneumonia was accepted at ALL medical schools and ANY researcher or professor who even thought about questioning the "approved treatment" risked having his career and/or funding eliminated.

Correct. We should teach that pneumonia is too complex to have an origin other than God and that man should just pray to God to cure him and not waste his time trying to find a medical and scientific reason for pneumonia or it's cure. Back to the dark ages we go ...

170 posted on 06/22/2006 7:13:56 PM PDT by OmahaFields
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To: Onelifetogive
Re 165: No, but I think we would be MUCH worse off if ONE treatment for pneumonia was accepted at ALL medical schools and ANY researcher or professor who even thought about questioning the "approved treatment" risked having his career and/or funding eliminated.

Maybe, but if you wind up dead by relying on prayer or exorcism rather than antibiotics, that is your choice. But if you rely on prayer and the Theory of Eating Grasshoppers and your child dies, you will go to prison. And deservedly so. Rejecting the accepted modern science of medicine is not acceptable in any church I know of (note that Christian Scientists have gone to jail). And not accepted under the law. What church-belief do you hold to that chooses to withhold established and effective treatments to a child or loved one? Which church-belief do you take as gospel to challenge X-rays or MRI? Do you actually know what an X-ray is?

Just how do you plan to separate out all "the non-approved" theories? Do you want your doctor to be a graduate of the Moonies Medical School or the Church of the Universal Triumphant?

I think your post is dishonest. I think that you rely on modern science as much as the rest of us.

But science is a whole. You can't say, "this part I like, this part I reject". Science describes the world as we find it, like it or not.

210 posted on 06/22/2006 8:40:02 PM PDT by thomaswest (Humanists are wonderfully moral people, too.)
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