RE: Why can't Christians say that parts of the Old Testament don't apply??..
October 20, 2010 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2010 at 12:09 pm by orogenicman.)
"Now as for the blood, my reference to it was to show that God was saying that the life of the flesh is in the blood and that a fetus developes it's own blood type before a woman is certain she is pregnant."
I think most doctors would agree that life is not possible without the whole beast, so to speak. There are many parts of the human body which are indispensible to life. Blood is one. But blood without a heart doesn't give one life. Blood without a brain doesn't give one life. Blood without a liver, pancreas, or endocrine system doesn't give one life. All of these and more are requisite to sustain life. But none of this is really the issue here with respect to abortion. The issue is a woman's control over her own body, her own reproductive rights. Women are the child bearers, and for their entire lives they have that responsibility laid upon them. They didn't ask for it. They were born with it. And it is their innate right to decide what is best for their bodies, and for their lives, and no one else's, certainly not the government's. If the tables were turned, if men had the responsibility laid upon them, this wouldn't be an issue.
I think most doctors would agree that life is not possible without the whole beast, so to speak. There are many parts of the human body which are indispensible to life. Blood is one. But blood without a heart doesn't give one life. Blood without a brain doesn't give one life. Blood without a liver, pancreas, or endocrine system doesn't give one life. All of these and more are requisite to sustain life. But none of this is really the issue here with respect to abortion. The issue is a woman's control over her own body, her own reproductive rights. Women are the child bearers, and for their entire lives they have that responsibility laid upon them. They didn't ask for it. They were born with it. And it is their innate right to decide what is best for their bodies, and for their lives, and no one else's, certainly not the government's. If the tables were turned, if men had the responsibility laid upon them, this wouldn't be an issue.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
