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1 “Bat ‘Super Immunity’ Could Help Protect People,” ScienceDaily, CSIRO Australia, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160222155631.htm.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 I have written about this in the book Behold! The Word of God (2007), Apologetics Press, http://apologeticspress.org/pdfs/e-books_pdf/Behold%20the%20Word%20of%20God.pdf, p. 124.
5 Eric Lyons (2009), “Did the Bible Writers Commit Biological Blunders?”, Apologetics Press, https://www.apologeticspress.org/AllegedDiscrepancies.aspx?article=2731.
6 Butt, pp. 103-131.
7 Lucy Maddox, “Don’t Eat the Bats,” Science, http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/08/dont-eat-bats.
8 Ibid.
I don’t agree with all of their theology, but this piece was interesting, especially if the Chinese Virus came from them eating bats.
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Now, that is not Batshit crazy! Written over 2500 hundred years ago by the God of the universe. There is a boatload of other very good information in that book, too.
Thank you.
I have always found bats to be loathsome-looking creatures, alive or cooked.
Then again, when the jews did not get as sick as the rest of the population, they were often accused of poisoning everyone else, and pogroms ensued...
I gotta quit eating those salted bat wings!
Kind of one of the reasons I quit caving. All the caves we went to had bats and cavers had gotten inhalation rabies. When that risk got thrown into the mix caving wasn’t acceptable risk anymore.
Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly, but it turns out that they have other unique characteristics that separate them from most (if not all) other mammals. In a project headed by Dr. Peng Zhou, an international research team did extensive studies on bats.
Bats are hosts to 100 different viruses, many of which are harmful or even lethal to humans.
1. The team wanted to discover how bats can carry so many, and such deadly, viruses without getting sick themselves.
Turns out that bats have a special ability.
Check out article.
He apparently also had it rigjt with swine flu.
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Interesting.
Thanks!
For later reference (batfood).
While I do view the Bible as divine, it is not unreasonable that the concept of unclean animals would come from the observation of fatalities after eating them, over the generations.