God the Mosquito and Man

Zhiyong Xi, a medical entomologist and microbiologist at Michigan State University, who leads the project, said this is 99 percent successful, meaning up to one percent released could be female. The technique has been tested extensively in Brazil, following the zika outbreak, and populations of disease carriers have drastically dropped in test areas. There were concerns from the public when another firm Oxitec wanted to test the mosquitoes in the Florida Keys area.

Concerns ranged from any risk of the lab-grown insects being able to infect humans, the natural disease carriers becoming immune to them, or it decimating populations of other arthropods, including the spiders that feed on the natural mossies. Oxitec said only 62 female mosquitoes per person in an area would be inadvertently released, but it was hard to predict how many would land on humans. An EPA environmental impact document about the plan said: However, in a section entitled "To implement or not to implement? The plan has been deemed safe but some have fears if it goes wrong.

Canadian blogger Rose Webster is behind a campaign to stop the releases. She is also convinced that Wolbachia releases have actually helped the spread of the Zika virus. It concluded there was the potential for the bacteria to infect humans.

Why Did God Make Mosquitoes?

Because of that disobedience, the human family became weak and vulnerable to diseases—and even death Romans 5: Every mosquito bite ought to be a reminder to obey God. Second, mosquitoes actually are a valuable source of food for many creatures that were made to benefit mankind. For example, frogs, lizards, and some fish eat mosquitoes. These insects are an important link in the animal food chain, thus ultimately they are for our benefit as well.

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There is a balance in nature that we sometimes do not recognize or appreciate. Third, there are numerous mysteries in nature we do not understand. There are more things we do not understand than those we do. We must humbly recognize and acknowledge our limited knowledge, and not speak irreverently of God in our frustration. That is the epitome of arrogance. This was precisely the problem of Job as he questioned the wisdom of God in governing the universe.

The Lord humbled the patriarch and brought him to his knees by a barrage of interrogation that yet baffles the keenest of minds see Job Full original text and an English translation appear in the Ladino Wikipedia article. According to the Islamic narrative, Abraham seems to have a series of discussions with Nimrod. He frees one and condemns the other.

According to Mujahid , "Four people gained control over the earth, east and west, two believers and two disbelievers. The two believers were Solomon and Dhul Qarnayn , and the two disbelievers were Nebuchadnezzar and Nimrod. No one but they gained power over it. The following version of the confrontation between Abraham and Nimrod appears in the Midrash Rabba , a major compilation of Jewish Scriptural exegesis.

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The part in which this appears, the Genesis Rabbah Chapter 38, 13 , is considered to date from the sixth century. He [Abraham] was given over to Nimrod. Abraham said to him: Shall I then worship the water, which puts off the fire! If so, shall I worship the cloud, which carries the water? If so, shall I worship the wind, which scatters the clouds?

And shall we worship the human, who withstands the wind? Said [Nimrod] to him: You pile words upon words, I bow to none but the fire—in it shall I throw you, and let the God to whom you bow come and save you from it! Haran [Abraham's brother] was standing there.

He said [to himself]: If Abraham wins, I shall say: When Abraham went into the furnace and survived, Haran was asked: Historians, Orientalists , Assyriologists and mythographers have long tried to find links between Nimrod and real historically attested figures in Mesopotamia. Since the city of Akkad was destroyed and lost with the destruction of its Empire in the period — BC long chronology , the stories mentioning Nimrod seem to recall the late Early Bronze Age.

The association with Erech Sumero-Akkadian Uruk , a city that lost its prime importance around 2, BC as a result of struggles between Isin , Ur , Larsa and Elam , also attests the early provenance of the stories of Nimrod. The Christian Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea as early as the early 4th century, noting that the Babylonian historian Berossus in the 3rd century BC had stated that the first king after the flood was Euechoios of Chaldea, identified him with Nimrod.

More recently, Sumerologists have suggested additionally connecting both this Euechoios , and the king of Babylon and grandfather of Gilgamos who appears in the oldest copies of Aelian c. Prince also suggested a possible link between the Lord Ni of Marad and Nimrod. He mentioned how Dr. Kraeling was now inclined to connect Nimrod historically with Lugal-Banda, a mythological king mentioned in Poebel, Historical Texts, , whose seat was at the city Marad. According to Ronald Hendel the name Nimrod is probably a polemical distortion of the god Ninurta , a prominent god in Mesopotamian religion who had cult centers in a number of Assyrian cities such as Kalhu , and also in Babylon , and was a patron god of a number of Assyrian kings.

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The identification with Ninus follows that of the Clementine Recognitions ; the one with Zoroaster, that of the Clementine Homilies , both works part of Clementine literature. Additionally, Enmerkar is said to have had ziggurats built in both Uruk and Eridu , which Rohl postulates was the site of the original Babel. George Rawlinson believed Nimrod was Belus like Nimrod and Ninus a king not attested in Mesopotamian annals, but claimed by the later Greeks to have been a king of Assyria based on the fact Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions bear the names Bel-Nibru.

Joseph Poplicha wrote in about the identification of Nimrod in the first dynasty or Uruk [34]. Yigal Levin suggests that Nimrod was a recollection of Sargon of Akkad and of his grandson Naram-Sin, with the name "Nimrod" derived from the latter. The biblical Nimrod, then, is not a total counterpart of any one historical character.

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He is rather the composite Hebrew equivalent of the Sargonid dynasty: The later editors of the Book of Genesis dropped much of the story and mistakenly identified the Mesopotamian Kish with the Hamitic Cush. In modern American English , the term is often used sarcastically to mean a dimwitted or a stupid person, a usage first recorded in and popularized by the Looney Tunes cartoon characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck , who both sarcastically refer to the hunter Elmer Fudd as "nimrod", [37] [38] as an ironic connection between "mighty hunter" and "poor little Nimrod", i.

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