Renewing the War on Epidemics and Plagues
Editor | May 02, 2009 | Comments 0
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Over two thousand years ago Protagoras, a Greek Sophist, should have known better than to write, “Man is the measure of all things.” Humans might have the ability to reason, pursue certain behaviors like doing good or committing acts of war, and regulate their thoughts, but epidemics and new mutant forms of plagues often appear to control destiny. They also have a humbling affect on anthropocentrism and modernistic thinking. Some have never grasped too that they were created with and for, not above or against, creation and the natural world. In other words, nature usually decides what is “real”. By the time Thucydides wrote in 430 BCE,…
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