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Quote by: Isherwood  The Bible was written by scientific illiterates who thought illness was caused by bad spirits. How can you hope to examine 2000 year old superstitions in the light of modern science? |
I do not plan for scientists to study sin or bad spirits. The Adam and Eve story did not mention that a bad spirit came into Adam or that the sin is a spirit. Jesus did not heal people by casting out evil spirits, only once when the person seemed to have a mental problem.
Science has already discounted all this as fantasy, and would see no reason to study it or to prove anything biblical in nature. And paranormal science is interested in other matters.
The study on the genes was done already, all the theist must do is to present an explaination about how genetics, the studies done and those to be done as time passes, can apply to the statements in the bible about "hand-me-down" sin. I have provided some good "starters" for that purpose.
The curse of sin would be about geneitcs, death is contolled by our genes because they control the ageing processes, illnesses are not known to be caused by genes, in fact, DNA might control everything about us except our power to change those biological commands.
(once we know how). If "bad spirits" are manifested as "bad thoughts" then what causes that, could it be a deformed gene somewhere in the complexites of the DNA that sets the mold for our attitudes and what kinds of thoughts a individual is apt to express, or is the mind seperate from the way the rest of the body is formulated.
And what about how the skull is constructed, do genes determine the size of the skull, and if women have pain and suffering during childbirth because of the large head size of human babies, is that because of a genetic evolution that went a-muck?
Science does not know why our genes created that larger then primate head size, but they know it causes pain at childbirth and that is a somewhat of a novelty in nature.
What cursed the DNA genes to evolve the wrong head size? Was it punishment for the sins of Eve? Or a normal evolutionary event designed to aid our survival?
These ideas might make sense to a theist, would you not agree at least on that one point?