bizzarboy

He's suggesting catholics have altered the word of the lord, or so I've interpreted.

Unfortunately, that's true to some extent. There is no copy of the Bible in it's original form in existance. It's believed that there are somewhere around 70 different variations of the Bible that have come before the one we know today. As such, it is safe to say that certain stories have been altered, added, or omitted as certain people interpret it differently. History gives us a good example of that with the creation of the Anglican Church by King Henry VIII of England, having separated from the Catholic Church when the Pope refused to allow him to divorce Queen Catherine.

Ah yes. Science and religion CAN go hand in hand. Those who study both enough will realize this and I truly believe that the only way to fully understand either science or religion is to study the other.

I'm a pharmacy student at my college and we've done quite a bit of discussion on this. The fact of the matter is that while bird flu is a threat, it really hasn't been determined just how MUCH of a threat. The cold hard truth is that it's just another disease that the media has taken and ran with. It's being blown far out of proportion, much like SARS as Ali said. As an example, think back to any winter you can remember. Every year the media insists that the up-and-coming strain of influenza is the worst we've seen when that may not be necessarily true.

I've seen that once before. A buddy of mine had that happen. He was chain frozen as well.