Forgetting Wisdom

We let ourselves be tyrannized by data, by information, and have forgotten wisdom. Good science requires good questions.


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Ignoring the Monster Inside

Science in medicine has become master instead of servant. We have viewed health and illness as an alien something that leaps upon our backs in the dark and fastens to our flesh. This model of sickness suggests that all that is needed is to peel the monster off of our outside. We can leave what we are inside, in our spirit, alone. Indeed, there is plenty of therapy which fits that model quite well. Yet, illness is more often substantially subjective.


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Free Economy

The opposite of a controlled, monopolistic economy is a free economy, in which the marketplace allows people to assign values to the various products and services which are available. Value is, remember, subjective, not objective. In a truly free economic exchange, both buyer and seller come away winners. If value were objective rather than subjective, every economic transaction would produce a winner and a loser. Someone would have traded something of more value for something of less value. The best that could be expected would be a tie. But, since value is subjective, the value to me of my $20 is not as great as the bottle of medicine sitting on your shelf. To you, my $20 is more valuable than that bottle. We exchange, and both are winners.


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Sovereign God in Medicine

I have confidence... in a Provident God, who exerts His will in ways that are partly comprehensible to us by means of principles. Our present system [of medicine] in many ways is trying to overrule God. Have no fear. It won't.


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Bearer of Justice, Not Compassion

A requirement by the state that a certain privileged group (doctors) be inserted into the patient's decision is accepted by us as natural, but it is only about a hundred years old. Were things so awful before? Even if they were, has God set up civil rulers to govern the health of individuals, or has He set up the individuals as the ones who are responsible? If you think the former, what is your Biblical grounds for thinking that? Government is for the punishment of evildoers. It is an instrument of justice, the bearer of the sword. It is incongruous to see the compassion and care of the injured and ill as a part of a ministry of justice and coercion.


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