
08-05-2010, 08:10 AM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Re: Malaria Proof Mosquito Created
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Originally Posted by crakjak
Yep, there were those during the rage of Yellow Fever and Malaria, that opposed the efforts of the scientist that believed mosquitoes were the carriers. It would be a sad world if everyone just accepted every result of the curse in the earth, without opposing it with every path possible.
We are to work, to control the effects of the curse, we kill weeds, we control insects and animals that are dangerous to our existence. To destroy mosquitoes ability to spread malaria is no different. Yes, we also have to resolve the side effects of such efforts. This earth is terribly flawed due to sin and we have to do what we can to keep it inhabitable until the full redemption.
A side note: We don't really understand today what even our founding fathers of this country endured. Yellow Fever and Malaria killed hundreds if not thousands every summer in the cities of early America, it was a terrible scourge. And is was simply the natural (cursed) life cycle of the Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes that spread these diseases. Wipe out this particular mosquito and you wipe out these diseases.
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Just a side question...
Are you also for the genetic modification of food plants to fight various diseases the plant might be vulnerable to?
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