They're not really following their religious beliefs if the story is accurate. JWs are advised to seek out the best available medical care, with the exception of blood transfusions, which they will refuse to the extent that is legally possible. But I'm not seeing anything in that story that indicated that there was an issue over blood transfusions. Nor does the Watchtower organization advise parents to take such drastic steps as removing a sick child from a hospital (or in this case, not returning him as expected).
There could be some kind of misunderstanding, or some other issue that led them to take that action. Or it could be that a strict fundamentalist organization is bound to attract people who do crazy shit like this.
There could be some kind of misunderstanding, or some other issue that led them to take that action. Or it could be that a strict fundamentalist organization is bound to attract people who do crazy shit like this.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
