UK - God gave us skill to move forward

God gave us skill to move forward
Date: 14 November 2009
Savile Park Road
Halifax
GRAHAM RIGBY, Your say November 7, I'm with him, says "If God had wanted fluoride in our water it would be there."

Down the centuries religion has opposed medical advances, saying as Graham Rigby does, that it's against God's will.
The most recent example was religious opposition to organ transplant surgery but I don't see any Graham Rigbys refusing organ transplant surgery when it's their own lives in danger.
So let's turn Graham Rigby's statement round.
If God hadn't wanted us to make these medical advances, including fluoride, he wouldn't have given us the intelligence to do so.
But he did, so that's God's will.
John Crabtree

RFH,14/11/2009 08:18:29
You’ve shot your own argument down in flames, Mr Crabtree, with your words, “when it's their own lives in danger.”
Few people would refuse heart surgery if their condition required it, but I suspect every sane person WOULD refuse it if they were told they had to have it without their consent because a minority of people in the area were possibly in danger of developing heart problems if they didn’t make slight changes to their lifestyle.
Furthermore, fluoride is NOT a medical advance. It is an industrial waste product.