oooh boy.
I am glad to see there has been a vigorous response to this nonsense.
Let me add this to the pile: I politely suggest that here we see a pernicious danger associated with a particular slice of Christian fundamentalism. Here is the issue: it is very tempting to seek out a world view that simplifies what we all would likely agree is a complex world. It is very compelling to believe that all we need to do is "trust God" and He will unerringly lead us down the right path.
This is obviously not how things work. Medical experts have invested years of often difficult study and training to learn how to treat human illness. And then there are the long, expensive trials and tests once a candidate therapy has been identified. No magic, no shortcuts - just hard, hard, work. And time and money. And backtracking when you make a mistake.
That is how humanity acquires knowledge, not by having it mystically downloaded from on high. I would love to believe in this other alternative - that all truth is disclosed directly to us. But, come on people, surely you know this is simply not how this world actually works.
The spirit of what we in this post (the one I am responding to) is no different than the spirit that deludes a very small number of Christians to play around with poisonous snakes on the naive belief they will not be bitten.
