by Bill M. Tracer
There is a rumor running around that Charles Darwin recanted on his death bed. Actually there was no recanting, but this rumor is not the only misconception about Charles Darwin.
There are two very common misconceptions about Charles Darwin. This re-canting is only one of these misconceptions. The other is [...]
SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVE THE BIBLE
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“Many of the great scientists of the past who founded and developed the key disciplines of science were creationists. Note the following sampling;
Long before medical science discovered the importance of quarantine of persons with infectious disease, the Bible instigated them. In 1490 B.C. the Scriptures tell the children of Israel what to do if a man has leprosy: “All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be” (Leviticus 13:46). Laws of quarantine were not instigated by modern man until the seventeenth century.
The Bible and the Immune Sysytem
The Bible instructs that male babies are to be circumcised on the eighth day (Genesis 17:12). Medical science has now discovered that this is the day that the coagulating factor in the blood, called prothrombin, is the highest. It reaches its peak on the eighth day, then drops. Medical science has also discovered that this is when the human body’s immune system is at its peak.
The American Heart Association says: “The major kinds of fats in the foods we eat are saturated, poly-unsaturated, mono-unsaturated, and trans fatty acids. Saturated fats, trans fats, and dietary cholesterol raise blood cholesterol. A high level of cholesterol in the blood is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, which leads to heart attack.”
Thousands of years before modern science identified bacteria, God made provision for Israel by banning the eating of meat that may be spoiled by bacteria.
THE BIBLE AND LAWS OF HYGIENE
Doctors now know they need to scrub between patients.
Encyclopedia Britannica documents that in 1845, a young doctor in Vienna named Dr. Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis was horrified at the terrible death rate of women who gave birth in hospitals. As many as 30 percent died after child birth. Semmelweis noted that doctors would examine the bodies of patients who died, the, without washing their hands, go straight to the next ward and examine expectant mothers. This was their normal practice, because the presence of microscopic disease was unknown.
