(December 18, 2009 at 11:53 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: It's one thing to believe in crazy bullshit so-called medicine that doesn't actually work, but I can't for the life of me understand why this so often seems to cause people to also reject and even slag off scientific medicine which so obviously does really work. It's not just drawing away from science but also even attacking it.
EvF
I once had a fascinating discussion with a batshit crazy fundie who wanted creationism taught in schools. The question put to her was "why is that your line in the sand?" She was a nurse but was not holding out for teaching "driving out demons" in medical school. Yet her bible was far more insistent that disease could be cured by driving out demons than it was about her myopic view of creation which is reliant on man-made calculations. The answer ultimately seemed to vindicate Dawkins' "God of the Gaps" hypothesis in that medical science had proven its value but she did not understand astrophysics so god must have done it.
Nuts come in various shades but the fuckers in this story kill people.
