Kingston
Isn't a disease something you catch from some infectious bacteria?
Taylor
It's an addiction, which is a kind of disease of the brain chemicals. You can be born with diseases, or develop them from lifestyle choices (like cancer from smoking). It's not a disease for everyone - some people can manage to gamble without becoming addicted, but some people destroy their lives with it and for them it is a disease.
Roosevelt Gardens
No, they are comparing it to a disease, yet unreasonable, because it's an addiction, it has nothing to do with your body except wasting your money if you tend to lose a lot..
Atlantic City
It's not. It's an addictive behavior. People like to remove the stigma of blame for things like gambling and alcoholism by calling them diseases. It makes the "victim" (addict) feel better, when in reality it allows them to be absolved of any responsibility for their actions.
Sibley
it's not a disease but it will do some pretty nasty things to you like destroy your whole life so don't gamble my mom knew someone who go around 10 million dollar from her dead husband and she lost it all in 4 years because of gambling
Batavia
I would not really call it a disease unless you consider any addiction a disease. I believe it's an addiction not unlike alcoholism or drug addiction which I don't consider either to be a disease. They like to use disease because it presumes you don't have any control over the situation. With addiction, you CAN get control.
Thompson
Gambling isnt a desease, a desease affects your body while gambling does not.. it only hurt your pocket if you dont play right..
Showing posts with label journal infectious diseases. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Creationists how come penicillin didn't end infectious disease?
Medford
Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was, at the time, labeled as the "wonder drug."it single-handedly reduced the death rate from diseases such as pneumonia by 1,800%. (statistics come from the comparison of death rates of world war 1 to after the use of penicillin in world war 2)if evolution is as ridiculous as you all say it is, then please explain to me how ~3/5 of all staph infections were penicillin resistant (statistic is derived from a post WWII analysis) in just 6 years after the mass production and mass use of this drug (since, due to the earlier statistic, only ~5.6% or 1/18 before were resistant.) where did the other 55.4% come from?
Jefferson
They forgot to rub Jesus wafers over most of the penicillin supply and so it wasn't as good
Loring AFB
This is the basic of the science: organisms can vary within kind or/and devolve. These Scientific facts validates Biblical accounts. Thus, gene pools can become extinct but cannot reappear/evolve. Two gene pools from two different area can recombine & vary within kind to become more viable, but extinct (not separated) gene pools are gone forever. Devolution such as mutation is the opposite of evolution. Devolution is science. Evolution is against science. People got malaria. People with sickle cell anemia do not get malaria. Is sickle cell anemia the result of evolution process? If not, how come the people resist malaria? Think. Think, The answer: sickle cell anemia is not an evolution process. Sickle cell anemia is a devolution (mutation or degenerative) process that causes immunity to malaria. Now think about all those scientific facts and think how penicillin can become ineffective? Is it like malaria?
Grandview
Because we all know viruses mutate when people talk about evolution as nonsense they are talking about macro evolution, the ones that mention animals and humans evolved from one animal to another, this is only speculation and has not be observed by the human eye.
Bono
Many creationists accept that organisms can adapt slightly, yet they can't accept the fact that enough time worth of adaptions can lead to the emergence of new species.
Needham
From what I've read, most of them believe in micro-evolution, the little changes, but not macro, the big changes.
Mount Clemens
Simple adaptation. God made all his creation to be very adaptable. It has nothing to do with evolution.
Wilburton
My fundie sister uses words like micro evolution and adaptation. Aren't they cute?
Castorland
Don't make them say the E word, that is more than they can handle.
Norco
Wow, you have totally demolished the straw man you set up. Beautiful, but worthless. Creationists have always believed in the great variety of information held within DNA such that viruses, bacteria, plants and animals can change within their species. The evidence for such change, as you so cleverly note, is obvious to the most casual observer. However, no one has ever produced any significant evidence that one species can change into another species. Consider the 10s of thousands of generations that fruit flies have gone through in the arena of science. All that radiation and the other DNA transforming assaults...and what do we have....fruit flies.... some pretty bizarre fruit flies, but fruit flies.... science has never even made a fruit fly produce a house fly. Game, set, match.
Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was, at the time, labeled as the "wonder drug."it single-handedly reduced the death rate from diseases such as pneumonia by 1,800%. (statistics come from the comparison of death rates of world war 1 to after the use of penicillin in world war 2)if evolution is as ridiculous as you all say it is, then please explain to me how ~3/5 of all staph infections were penicillin resistant (statistic is derived from a post WWII analysis) in just 6 years after the mass production and mass use of this drug (since, due to the earlier statistic, only ~5.6% or 1/18 before were resistant.) where did the other 55.4% come from?
Jefferson
They forgot to rub Jesus wafers over most of the penicillin supply and so it wasn't as good
Loring AFB
This is the basic of the science: organisms can vary within kind or/and devolve. These Scientific facts validates Biblical accounts. Thus, gene pools can become extinct but cannot reappear/evolve. Two gene pools from two different area can recombine & vary within kind to become more viable, but extinct (not separated) gene pools are gone forever. Devolution such as mutation is the opposite of evolution. Devolution is science. Evolution is against science. People got malaria. People with sickle cell anemia do not get malaria. Is sickle cell anemia the result of evolution process? If not, how come the people resist malaria? Think. Think, The answer: sickle cell anemia is not an evolution process. Sickle cell anemia is a devolution (mutation or degenerative) process that causes immunity to malaria. Now think about all those scientific facts and think how penicillin can become ineffective? Is it like malaria?
Grandview
Because we all know viruses mutate when people talk about evolution as nonsense they are talking about macro evolution, the ones that mention animals and humans evolved from one animal to another, this is only speculation and has not be observed by the human eye.
Bono
Many creationists accept that organisms can adapt slightly, yet they can't accept the fact that enough time worth of adaptions can lead to the emergence of new species.
Needham
From what I've read, most of them believe in micro-evolution, the little changes, but not macro, the big changes.
Mount Clemens
Simple adaptation. God made all his creation to be very adaptable. It has nothing to do with evolution.
Wilburton
My fundie sister uses words like micro evolution and adaptation. Aren't they cute?
Castorland
Don't make them say the E word, that is more than they can handle.
Norco
Wow, you have totally demolished the straw man you set up. Beautiful, but worthless. Creationists have always believed in the great variety of information held within DNA such that viruses, bacteria, plants and animals can change within their species. The evidence for such change, as you so cleverly note, is obvious to the most casual observer. However, no one has ever produced any significant evidence that one species can change into another species. Consider the 10s of thousands of generations that fruit flies have gone through in the arena of science. All that radiation and the other DNA transforming assaults...and what do we have....fruit flies.... some pretty bizarre fruit flies, but fruit flies.... science has never even made a fruit fly produce a house fly. Game, set, match.
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