["Humans are actually artificially living much longer than we really should, biologically speaking. This is thanks to modern science and medicine. Left to our own natural devices we would rapidly see the average of death fall into the late 20s -early 30s."]
Psalm 90:10a
I can show you at least 5 scriptures where we can add years to our life. None of them have anything to do with "modern" medicine.
According to JAMA doctors are the third leading cause of death. They do not deny this, but they ease their conscious by trying to claim that they keep people alive so they can kill them later on.
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"I can show you at least 5 scriptures where we can add years to our life. None of them have anything to do with 'modern' medicine."
To be fair, glyptodon, he does provide a link: http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/30/doctors_death.htm
Actually, I would bet that there is a higher death rate among people who see doctors very frequently than among the general population!
True - in 2002, motor vehicle accidents caused 44.3% of all accidental deaths in the US whereas firearms were only responsible for 0.8% of accidental deaths.
My late companion died of a reaction to one of her medicines at the age of 44. But without modern medicine, she most likely would have died within days of her birth at most; instead, medical advances made it possible for her to live and, for the most part, to have a life worth living. The fact that medicine couldn't extend her feeble body's life longer than this is not the fault of medicine; it was not a failure of medicine, but a testament to many repeated successes that just finally could not keep pace with the body's breakdown. She and her family, who are all Bible-thumping fundamentalist Christians, were all grateful for these modern medical advances and considered them "miracles" themselves (albeit with a small "m") for their accomplishments with her. I tend to agree.
In most of Africa, the life expectancy is below 55. In some countries, particularly in the southern parts of the continent, the average age of death drops below 40.
The average age of death in 1900 was 47.
In first world countries, life expectancy is now between 70 to 80 years.
Obviously there are other things contributing to this, and I do realize that statistics aren't always 100% reliable, but modern medicine is definitely factoring in here. To say otherwise is just plain stupid.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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