Someone other than humans had a working knowledge of the germ theory in order to write the highly advanced hygiene laws of scripture in the first five books of The Bible. Why other than human? Because you must have and know how to use a microscope in order to learn the germ theory and no human on Earth 3500 years ago had a microscope at their disposal. But someone or something named Yahweh did.
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What? People knew not to eat rotten food long before germ theory came along. You can see the effects of eating certain foods pretty easily without knowing what exactly causes the illness.
And why on earth would God need a microscope?
Yes, because your all powerful, all knowing deity needs a microscope?
Personally, if your god does exist, I don't consider him omni-anything, but try to get together with your peers and decide please.
At least this one knows his name isn't "God"
"Someone other than humans had a working knowledge of the germ theory in order to write the highly advanced hygiene laws of scripture in the first five books of The Bible."
I'm pretty sure that sprinkling dead pigeon blood on someone to cure leprosy isn't exactly hygienic. So, either your Bible had no fucking clue about hygiene or you're full of shit. Probably both.
"Why other than human? Because you must have and know how to use a microscope in order to learn the germ theory and no human on Earth 3500 years ago had a microscope at their disposal."
Hence the reason disease ran rampant.
"But someone or something named Yahweh did."
Riiiight. You should read Leviticus if you believe that.
Or maybe people realized that Action A and Disease B tend to go hand-in-hand, and used that as a reason to ban Action A.
You don't need to know about germs to realize that handling the blood of a dead animal can spread disease.
They may not have had germ theory back then, but they certainly knew what disease was and understood that eating rotting or uncooked meat, not washing themselves, consuming bodily fluids, and eating the flesh of certain animals could lead to it. Plus, I wouldn't really consider washing your hands and avoiding rotting food as "high advanced hygiene", but I suppose that anything that involves even the slightest bit of thought would seem advanced to a fundie.
Creationists often point to the fact that ancient Hebrews washed thier hands before eating, and claim that this means that they all had PhD's in microbiology or something like that. Why, then, did Jesus command his followers NOT to wash their hands then? Maybe He wanted them to get sick so that he could perform a miracle and cure them perhaps.
Just like lusers must have a working knowledge of computer science, software engineering, and electrical engineering in order to operate computer systems and software.
No, wait, they don't. In fact, they rarely have any of those.
No, it turns out that you CAN, in fact, guesstimate how to use something without actually understanding it, through trial and error and maybe a bit of basic science.
Also, are you talking about the part where it says not to eat shellfish and cheeseburgers?
I ate a cheeseburger yesterday and I feel great. Shellfish just suck.
That also explains the Constitution since it breaks away from the political and social traditions of government existing in in the 1700's.
It couldn't have been written by earthlings. Only someone or something who could see the future could have done it.
Very astute, answerer5.
Then why is the term 'germ', 'virus' or any equivalent never found in the laws of the OT?
God said "don't eat swine, because they are unclean."
He didn't say "don't eat swine, because you might accidentally ingest the roundworm Trichinella spiralis and die from the worm entering your central nervous system."
so it's because of God we wash our hands before we eat, then?
nothing to do with not wanting shit on our food?
nothing at all?
If those laws were highly advanced, safe foods wouldn't be listed in the "do not eat" category.
Seriously, do you really think some bronze age guy would eat rotten food out of the gutter five times, get sick every time, and still not catch on that there was something wrong with the gutter food?
It's evolution. Things that are good for us generally taste good, and things that are bad are unappealing. Rotting garbage is full of harmful bacteria that would overwhelm the human immune system. Early humans who tried it usually died young, those who thought it smelled horrid and preferred the grilled sabre-toothed tiger survived to reproduce. Thousands of years later, the nose knows, thanks to natural selection weeding out those not smart enough to pick their nose's choice.
Or maybe some people had a brain and said "OH! when people do this they get sick and die so maybe we should do something else."
And also apparently god has a microscope, what magnification?
Yahweh has a microscope?
Why, if the highly advanced hygiene laws are present in the Bible, didn't hygiene become important to doctors until the 19th and 20th centuries?
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