
Originally Posted by
florida.blanca
good thing you brought this up
when science has discovered HIV, there were no treatments which can diminish the effect of the virus! when a person is diagnosed with HIV during the 80's, it's like death sentence. no treatment which could control the proliferation of the virus, and no way for medical experts to control the HIV patient to be advancing to the AIDS stage
but just two decades, and look what science has contributed.
science has discovered new treatments like Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTI)
and that's, with no doubt a product of science, not a product of religion!
science has helped aids patients live a quality life like a normal person would do!
you have to thank science, coz without them, you won't be able to surf here at istorya!
to add to this,
Those plagues that have killed millions of people long ago, the religious at the time thought this was punishment from the almighty... of course we now know it was a virus transmitted by pests and diseases like smallpox are curable/preventable with the help of modern medicine.
Sa una pang panahon, when we can't make sense of something, we immediately say.... that it's caused by God or some divine being. Even today, people still believe these things. Of course with science, these religious beliefs are relegated to superstition.