Animals;
Biodiversity;
Biomimetics;
Bionics;
Cells;
Creation;
DNA [Deoxyribonucleic Acid];
Evolution;
Genetics;
Life;
Plants;
Protein;
Symbiosis
Pick one.
Here are some reasons why the Israelites maintained a better measure of health than other nations.....
(1) The diet of the Hebrews did not normally include a great deal of meat, but when a family wanted to slaughter a domestic animal for meat, they took the animal to the sanctuary. (
Le 17:3-5; De 12:20-27) They ate the meat after the priest offered some of it on the altar and received his portion. Some communion sacrifices were to be eaten on the same day. Others could not be eaten after the second day, but the flesh was to be burned with fire. Considering Palestine’s warm climate and the lack of refrigeration, these requirements safeguarded the Israelites against febrile illnesses that can result from toxins that are produced when certain organisms multiply rapidly on meat that is not kept under refrigeration, such as
Staphylococcus aureus and
Salmonella.
(2) The flesh of certain prohibited animals, such as pigs, hares, carrion-eating animals and birds, rodents, and certain water animals and fish, is known to be a possible contributory factor in various diseases that are often accompanied by fever. (
Le 11:1-31)
(3) The sanitary regulations helped safeguard the cooking utensils and also the drinking-water supply from contamination, a source of typhoid and other febrile diseases. (
Le 11:32-38)
(4) Anyone either touching the body of an animal that died of itself or eating some of it had to cleanse himself, thus safeguarding against the spread of organisms identified with certain febrile diseases. (
Le 11:39, 40)
(5) The laws commanding the covering of fecal waste by each individual, also the covering of blood with dust, protected against febrile diseases such as hepatitis. (
Le 17:13; De 23:12, 13)
(6) The moral laws would practically eliminate all sexually transmitted disease, which disease can affect all organs of the body and is frequently accompanied by fever. (
Le 18:20, 22, 23)
(7) The quarantine laws worked to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.—
Le 13; Nu 19:11, 12, 16; 31:19.
The laws that God gave them kept them relatively healthy. No humans had knowledge of such things back then.....these rules could only have come from a source that had such knowledge. Why not the Creator?
Why not talk about GMO crops and how illnesses have increased because of this biological tampering? Biology might be used to improve resistance to disease in the crop, but the use of herbicides and pesticides has been slowly poisoning us for decades. Chemical waste contaminates our water supplies and chemical pollution ruins the very air we breathe....all products of science.
We have enough food to feed the world.....what we don't have is the political or financial will to do it. Someone mentioned today that if the money spent bombing Syria had been spent on medicine and food for the refugees, it might have saved lives instead of taking more.
The goals for biological research might seem noble until you actually find out what motivates a lot of them. Especially is this seen in medical science. Each year we see enormous amounts of money ploughed into "research"...a seemingly endless search for cures that never come. Cancer and heart disease continue to take countless thousands of lives every year. Drugs are developed all the time to "treat" these illnesses, but there are no "cures", despite all attempts to find them. I believe that biology has, to a large extent, been hijacked by greed. "Treatments" assure the drug companies of a continuous stream of customers for the rest of their miserable lives. "Cures" will never be allowed to surface because there is no profit in curing any of them. What about all those "breakthroughs" we hear about, that will take at least 10 years to get to market? Yet 10 years on, we never hear about them again. We are no further forward than we were decades ago. Chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are our only medical options for cancer....yet all three make cancer worse. Each cost ridiculous amounts of money and yet very few people can claim a complete cure.....the cancer almost always seems to return with a vengeance.
It isn't science that is the problem...it is evil men's use of science that creates the current chaos we see in the world today.
Each generation is weaker than the last...morally, physically and spiritually.....the biological gene pool has become a virtual cess pool.