Understanding Bacteria and Disease
Obviously, bacteria do exist. You can see them in a
simple microscope, like a light microscope.
You can grow them in culture. You can have them in a pure form.
You can dissect them and find out what they're made of.
You can even get them to do different things.
And we don't necessarily need to get into pleomorphism here,
but there is a abundance of evidence that these
bacteria can change form and even become different
forms like fungi, and then revert back to bacteria,
and change from one so-called species of bacteria to
another. But the real question for us in
understanding the
germ theory is, have these bacteria been
proven to cause disease? And the important
word there is cause disease.
Because you will find a bunch of strep
bacteria and a whole bunch of other kinds of
bacteria in many cases of people who have
sore throats.
In people who have painful urination, you will often find
many different kinds of bacteria.
Does finding something
at the site, even if a living thing maybe,
prove that that living thing was the cause of the damage?
How do we know that the bacteria are not there to,
for instance, clean up the dead and dying tissue?
How do we know they're not a remedial part of the process?
And the reason I ask that is because that's exactly the role
of bacteria and fungi in nature
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