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Ivan Iriarte's avatar

You make an important point, Todd, and I agree. I will not make any comments about God or Theology or the Garden of Eden. I will say something about your comments on medicine. Although I fundamentally agree with you, I believe that what is fundamentally wrong with today's medicine is not really that "we know too much". The problem is what has become to be the "accepted" way of applying what we know, and some of the accepted premises that guide the current practice of medicine. Someone decided that it is "good" to check your cholesterol levels every year, and if they are higher than some ridiculous level, then you need to take statins for the rest of your life, because it is "good" to have your LDL level below some number, even if the statins give you muscle pains and bust your liver. There are countless examples like that... I could go on talking about the "health industry", pharma... but you get the idea.

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Candy's avatar

My dad used to say that knowledge is the accumulation of facts, and wisdom is the correct application of that knowledge. He dropped out of school in the 8th grade to work and finished school when he was released from the Army after WW2 ended. Never stopped learning. Read books with a dictionary next to him. NEVER thought he knew it all. We need more of that kind of humility

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